Andrew Chatterton

If it was like, if it's stuff you were talking about, oh, it was the Soviets were doing, the Russians were doing against the Germans.

Yeah.

You hear that?

If you think about the poor relative, the granddad who's like, in his last years, or grandmother even, with section seven in her last years, finally saying, I was part of this resistance group and I was trained in this, this and it, and the family going, oh God, that's a shame.

It's a shame when they get to this age, isn't it?

Because there's no... You know, why would you believe that?

It's hard, yeah.

this we're going to get to a point where soon when no one who's doing that will be able to tell us anymore and it's a weird thing for you know i'm 43 right so so second world war is still from my perspective tangible because my grandparents were very much in it it's like it's a period that doesn't seem yeah now we're less you know

I remember when the last Harry Patch, the last First World War veteran died.

And that was, you know, it's a big thing.

But the First World War just seemed like a million miles away.

Yeah, it did.

The Second World War is so tangible.

It's there.

And now there's virtually no one alive who experienced it.

There's Coleshill House, which they... I should quickly just make... So Coleshill House is where they trained.

It's near Swindon.

And so two or three of each patrol from all over the country would turn up at Coleshill.

They'd just be told, go to Highworth, which is the nearest town.

and then go to the local post office in Highworth.