BROTHERS IN ARMS: STC Home Guard of Ilminster, with Geoffrey Ford in the back row, fifth from the left, and below, some of the guards’ equipment A CANADIAN woman whose father was evacuated to Ilminster during the Second World War and served in the town’s Home Guard is appealing to the public to help track down his brothers in arms. Geoffrey Ford previously lived in Orpington, London, and was evacuated to Ilminster in November 1940 as an employee for Standard Telephone and Cables .