Andrew Chatterton

So you've got these civilians with the info now.

Very similar to the auction.

So intelligence officers, again, would go around and recruit the key man in the town or village.

And that key man would usually have the wireless set.

So it'd be a vicar or a doctor or someone like that.

Yeah, we're up in about 4,500 in the Special Duties branch, and they're in similar counties to the Yorkshire units, but the Yorkshire units in the Special Duties branch didn't know about each other at all, even though they were operating sometimes very, very close to each other.

They had no idea about each other.

uh so how where how have you gained all this the first book about these groups was written in 1968 by a guy called david lamp he was american and then there was absolute silence for for ages and then the official secrets act for a lot of this finished in kind of the early 2000 mid-2000s um so like 2004 2005 stuff like that um

And so then we just got hold of veterans while we could.

I mean, now there's hardly any.

And they come, and nowadays it tends to be, and we'll talk about Section 7, which is the third group in a bit if we've got time.

A lot of this stuff now comes from families who say, our granddad said something about being in a resistance group, but we didn't really believe it.

We thought he was going a bit doolally in his old age.

We didn't really believe him.

So a lot of this stuff now comes from family members.

bunkers come from like people I played in a bunker in the middle of a woods in the 50s and 60s yeah so it comes from comes from that kind of stuff now which is great but yeah such a shame that went to the grave without being able to tell that story to anyone

No, they were almost all in coastal counties.

Yeah.

We'll talk about Section 7.

That was all over the country.