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Andrew Chatterton

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So that's how we found that one.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Other ones, they are found by accident mainly because...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Kids found them and played.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

A lot of them were in woods and things like that, obviously, for the auxiliary units.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So kids would play with them, not really understanding what they were playing with.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yes, definitely.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, there's definitely some out there.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Obviously, the very nature of them, if they're intact, they're not to be found.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's really, really difficult.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Your best chance of finding them now is if there's been a slight collapse.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

um so if the if the so the main chamber where the bunks are for the auxiliary units bunkers it's just made of elephant iron corrugated iron so quite but it's 80 years old now so it's starting to rust through so quite often that will rush through and collapse so you'll see like a big hole and then you'll see corrugated iron sticking out or you know the um ceramic earthenware pipes which are the air pipes they're quite good at being able to spot or water tanks provide their water things like that that's those are your

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

main clues the ones that exist now like how near are they to one another how many miles apart yeah so so the orcs patrols tended to be five to six miles inland so they didn't get caught up in that initial stage of an invasion and then so so in devon for example they're kind of every five miles

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

some closer oh quite close but they were they wouldn't they didn't know where the who was in the other patrol or where their bunker was because again security is this is there some database where they're all logged no no no because that feels like it should be there like we because

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

The group I volunteer for, the Coles Hill Auxiliary Research Team, our website, staybehinds.com, has got all the ones we know about.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

We don't give the exact location because most of them are on private land and people will just turn up.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

We know where a lot of them are and when we're given permission, we can go and take pictures.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Some...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So the special duties branch, you've got the civilian wireless.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I'll then talk about them being recorded.