Andrew Chatterton

So if the dogs are after you, so you'd scarper down this hill.

I mean, basically, you've got no chance.

There's two things.

The patrol leader was chosen because of his knowledge of the local area.

So hopefully he has a good knowledge of actually, I know exactly where we need to be because of those various things.

factors.

However, sometimes the Royal Engineers did choose a spot.

So there's an example in the book where the Royal Engineers went, right, we're plonking it there.

And the patrol leader's like, well, you can plonk it there, but it's definitely going to get flooded because I know that's at the water level.

It's going to high.

And they built it anyway.

It got flooded.

And then they went to the shore.

Okay, where are we going to put it?

He said, well, put it up.

So it didn't take that long because the nature of the people they were recruiting, because they knew the land, were landowners, were farmers, knew the area.

Correct.

Occasional poacher.

And Section 7, like the post-occupation, post-defeat, was kind of, we think, like February, March 1940.

So even before any disaster had happened in mainland Europe, we were already preparing for the fact that we might be occupied.