Britain's Secret Army
Known as Auxiliary Units or GHQ Auxiliary Units they were specially-trained, highly-secret units created by the British government during the Second World War with the aim of using irregular warfare to help combat any invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany, which the Germans codenamed Operation Sea Lion.
There were many units operating in Kent and the EHS have researched those units in and around the Elham Valley.
Recommended further reading:
Invasion 1940 by Peter Fleming
&
The Last Ditch by David Lampe
ISBN 978-1-85367-730-4
The following men are variously recorded as being members of the Auxilliary Unit. Britains Secret Army devised by Winston Churchill and trained locally at The Garth, Bilting.
The plans for their secret
underground bunkers and acts of sabotage in the event of invasion
were developed by Peter Fleming and Norman Field,
under the watchful eyes of General Montgomery and others.
Boughton F
Baker F
Judges P
Cinca? A
Terry G
Caister R
Mount J
French F
Helbling F
Allnut F
Pellett C
Higgs H
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