Readers identify Worthing Home Guard family members

No 4 Platoon A Company 5th Sussex (Worthing) Home Guard, December 17, 1944

Four readers wrote in after recognising some familiar faces in this photo of No 4 Platoon A Company 5th Sussex (Worthing) Home Guard, which was featured in Looking Back.

Maureen Mills, of Woodlands Avenue, Rustington, wrote in to identify her father as the man fourth from right in the back row.

Maureen said: “He was George Woodward and we lived at 57 Broadwater Way, Broadwater, Worthing.

“I knew he was in the Home Guard and he also managed a nursery on the Littlehampton Road.”

Disbanding of the Home Guard on Broadwater Green

Lisa Jeffery emailed in to identify her grandfather, Thomas Robert Jeffery, as the man on the far left of the back row.

Victor Venn, of Lisher Road, Lancing, wrote in to identify his grandfather, Bill Swain, as the man second from right on the front row.

Victor added: “He was foreman of the defence system groynes on the seafront, and used to live at 12 Ten Acres, in East Worthing.”