Andy Chatterton

And they went around the country.

So they started in six counties in July 1940 in Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Somerset, Cornwall and Devon, where they did a trial of these wireless sets.

And they proved to be really successful.

And then they recruited everywhere in the country.

It's hard to imagine just how wide this network was.

For example, we've got a chap who came forward in the early 2000s called Peter Atwater.

Peter is a really good example of the type of people or children that SIS were recruiting for Section 7.

Peter was 14.

when he was recruited for Section 7.

He was an ARP messenger and he was part of the Air Training Corps as well.

And he lived in Matlock in Derbyshire.

His role had the Germans occupied Matlock was initially as an observer.

He was to walk around Matlock and gather information on the occupying forces.

He would then take this back to his cell leader, a chap called Mr. Topless, who was a draper.

At the back of Mr. Topless's draper shop was a fake cupboard.

You go through the fake cupboard and the back is a room with a wireless set in.

There are two female wireless operators called a Mrs. Key and a Miss Swan.

He would then pass this information on to them.

They would then radio this information about the occupying forces to either a unoccupied zone.

So they thought that Britain would be like France.