Andrew Chatterton

So this was all pre-prepared.

Section seven was also about...

sabotaging the occupation, so blowing up factories that the Germans had taken over, assassinating German officials, assassinating British collaborators, again blowing up, you know, fuel and ammo dumps, things like that.

And the big, you know, and they were training 14, 15 year olds as snipers as well.

Two or three families had come forward and said that their grandad was kind of 14, 15 in 1940,

On his deathbed, he talks about being part of a resistance force and he was trained to be a sniper.

They didn't really believe what he was going on about.

But I've had the same story from people in Liverpool, Nottingham, Leicestershire, Eastbourne, the whole length of the country, all independently telling me very similar things.

And there's a guy in Liverpool who'd been a sniper during the First World War and he told his family he was training guys or kids in tunnels underneath the Mersey in unarmed combat and things like that.

The other key differentiator with Section 7 to the others is that they were also recruiting women in combat roles.

So there's a lady in near Leeds called Irene Lockley.

She told her daughter just before she died that she was in a resistance cell with her father, her uncle and two cousins.

They operated out of caves near her village near Leeds.

And she was taught how to make Molotov cocktails, how to derail trains.

But really interestingly, also how to use the grot, sort of like a cheese wire.

And she would be used as like a honey trap.

So attracting German officers or German soldiers down an alley in Leeds or somewhere.

They think they were getting something, but she would garrote them and then get back.

So Section 7 has the potential to have thousands of people involved.

And we know like six or seven.