Commanding officer Amble home guard.
Walter Casey was the TA instructor between the wars and as such I suppose he was an obvious choice to run the show when the home guard was formed due to his previous military experience and the fact he had also held rank as a commisioned officer. The same would apply to Jack Lynn as he had been an A/RSM in the first WW.
Their meeting place was the drill hall as you rightly suggest and they did various guard duties around Amble and district as well as weekend exercises in such locations as the moors at Longframlington among other places. My father was in the home guard as all people of a certain aged had to be, under 60 I think, but wasn't too enthusiastic due to the fact you had to report for drill nights etc after a shift filling coal at the pit or prior to going on foreshift.
Another of their guard duties was to stand sentry at the Amble reservior at Morwick, this was presumably to prevent the water supply being tampered with.
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