Andy Chatterton

It'd be an occupied zone and an unoccupied zone, with Scotland's most likely to be the unoccupied zone, with some kind of Pétain-Vichy-like government in charge there.

or the information because richard gambier parry was involved the information from these wireless sets might have been powerful enough to eventually end up in canada with some kind of government in exile so his role was to do this incidentally in the under the table where the wireless set was was a grenade with the pin stapled to the table so if the germans had somehow found out that this was a resistance cell broken through and found miss swan and miss keith in the back room

They could have pulled the grenade very easily, thrown it over their shoulders, grabbed their wireless set and escaped to carry on.

Because this is about long-term resistance.

So the auxiliary units in the Special Duties Branch had that very set window to disrupt an invasion.

This is much more like the French Resistance, where you can move, you have kind of portable wireless sets and move quickly and keep going for as long as possible.

Peter also was responsible for finding a...

a room or a building in which people on the run from the occupying forces could be passed on.

So rather like the escape lines in France, in occupied Europe, where an Allied airman was shot down, if the resistance got hold of him, they would pass him on from house to house to house, from safe house to safe house, to try and get him back to neutral territory from where he can then make his way back to Britain.

It looks like Section 7 were setting up an escape line for

for enemies of the occupying forces to try and get them out to an unoccupied zone, presumably Scotland or maybe Ireland.

So that was being prepared.

He had to meet other boys of his same age in Birmingham, I think they met.

Each of these chaps were part of the escape line, so they knew who to pass them on to.

So it looks like it was carrying up through the Midlands and up through North.

And when they met...

They had to talk or include a word in their conversation to ensure that they weren't being followed or that they weren't under duress.

So what better subject to talk about than the weather?

So Peter had to include the word ice in any conversation he had if he was meeting with one of these guys under occupation.

And another thing Peter said that a bit later on he was taught was how to be a sniper.