Ken Welch

We were treated like officers.

And we went out training at night, crawling around the fields.

We had a bit of fun up there.

Yes, we got on very well, father and I. And what about the secrecy?

We had to sign a secret document, you know, to swear the secrecy.

There was a cottage, a couple of people lived in the cottage that could see, not the entrance, but the gateway to where our OB was.

And of course, they would see us going in and out every Saturday or Sunday,

And of course, if we were invaded, then the Germans would get hold of them and torture them to find out what they knew.

So if we were invaded, somebody would have had to have gone and said goodbye to those.

They would have had to have been shot, I'm afraid.

Terrible situation.

I don't know who would have done it.

They might have drawn straws to find the one that would go and do it.

Yes.

Well, yes, that's right.

And if anything happened, if we were invaded and anything happened to me, if I were injured in any way, then I would have had to have been shot because they would have tortured me, questioned me if I was captured, you see.

So that was the situation.

It was a scary situation.

I never realised how scary it was.

Yes, yes.