One of the most evocative items from the wartime Home Guard is to go on display at the Tank Museum in Dorset – a pike. The homemade weapon was issued to eccentric WW1 veteran Percy Hobart, who ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. One of the most evocative items from the wartime Home Guard is to go on display at the Tank Museum in Dorset – a pike.

In 1928 Hobart married Dorothea Field. His sister, Elizabeth, married Bernard Montgomery. Hobart died in 1957 aged 71. His daughter presented the pike to the Tank Museum in 2014.