DID YOU KNOW

 

The GHQ 'A' (Auxillery) was a secret organisation put in place by Churchill in the early summer of 1940 this special order involving MI6 and Col.Colin Gubbins a specialist in Guerilla warfare was to train especially picked men from the home guard to do clandestine if the Germans invaded Britain, know by the Germas as Operation Sealion.

 

There were special hideouts constructed in secret places in open woods with entrances through barns and buildings etc. so the operatives could move about in secret these deep bunker type shelters were sound proof and required ladders to enter through trap doors and ladders some 30 feet deep.

 

They were fully equiped for 6 to 8 people with cookers, food, water, beds and weapons of all types for six to eight weeks.

 

They estimated that these men would not last long under occupation of the German forces some estimated only up to 12 days, there main mission was to eliminate certain people such as the local Mayor or anyone in local Government that seemed risky .. even German Wehrmacht Troops, Gestapo, SS, and all officers.

 

Many of the men picked were local people such as farm workers, local hunters that knew the lay of the land in detail.

 

They operatives never told there Home Guard buddies or even there wives about there secret activities some took this secret to there graves the men would simply disappear into thin air, if a coded instruction came from the home office.

 

If any person saw there hiding place they were told to illiminate them immediately and get rid of the body, whether it be man, woman or child.