Andrew Chatterton
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And actually, that's a really interesting one because there was β
One guy we knew, we had his address and we couldn't place him in a patrol.
But actually, it turns out this bunker is almost right next to where his farm was.
And the same family still farmed there.
So I gave them a ring and they had no idea.
They had no idea what they thought.
They're just gobsmacked because they have absolutely no idea.
They thought quite often they'd say they're in a special bit of the Home Guard.
And that's all they would say.
They had no idea.
actually that they're a hardly trained guerrilla fighter and stuff like that so so often and people get in touch when they hear about it they'll get in touch and they'll say granddad would talk about a bunker or something like that and then we'd be able to look him up and yeah he's on our database and there he is he was a
Not just in the home guard or not just a farmer.
He was one of these remarkable guys who didn't say anything to anyone.
Who makes the...
So it's all kind of risk assessment.
I mean, ones that have been found, the trouble is with them, if they're completely, if we think they haven't been discovered since they were shut up in 19, so the auxiliary units were stood down in November 44.
If we think that hasn't been opened up since then, there's all kinds of air issues.
And equally, there's every chance that there's still a fuckload of explosives
in the bunker or weapons in the bunker.
So you have to be... Have you found any weapons?