Andrew Chatterton
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So they brought it back under this guy called Lawrence Grant, who started a thing called home defense scheme.
And he would, he was going out, uh, liberally arming civilians with like weapons and explosives.
No, it's slightly different.
So these guys were all going to be secret.
So the Home Guard role is basically as the Germans come through your town or village to defend the key points, so like the bridges or the crossroads and things like that, to defend it, to allow the regular army to be able to counterattack, just to kind of slow it down, but to take on the German army face-to-face.
whereas the auxiliary units was all about clandestine, so coming out at night.
So they had this home defence scheme thing, and then the army got to know about MI6 doing this stuff, and they were like, what the fuck?
You're just giving civilians loads of weapons and explosives.
We need to shut this down.
But at the same time, the army were doing something with Peter Fleming, who's the brother of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.
Into bondage.
So they were doing stuff in Kent.
That's what he said.
They were doing stuff in Kent and they were like... Sorry, Andrew.
So Peter, who may or may not have been in Spondage, he... Probably was.
I mean, like his brother, probably.