It has been revealed that preparations have begun to deploy a secret civil army made up of teenage girls and women who were previously trained to fight the Nazis in Britain.
This army was made up of many young women and girls. It was created in the event that Germany invades Britain.
We don’t know much about the Resistance Force because Britain wasn’t invaded. Also, all recruits must sign the Official Secrets Act when they join.
A book will be published in this year’s honor about the secret preparations made by Section VII. It was formed from the Secret Intelligence Service.
Andrew Chatterton, historian and author of this article discovered the Section VII national unit while researching Britain’s preparations for an invasion.
There are plans to create a secret army of civilians made up of teenagers and young women from Britain who were trained during World War II to defeat Nazis. Pictured: In 1942, the Girls’ Training Corp. There aren’t any photos of Section VII activities because they were so secret.
Pictured: One of the Section VII members created and keeps a homemade knuckleduster.
Chatterton, in addition to writing about the Auxiliary Units (and the Special Duties Branch) Chatterton also has anecdotal proof about Section VII units. The evidence was gathered after relatives of those who were involved shared their stories.
MailOnline was told by he: “There must have been hundreds, if not thousands of them signed up.
“They were not there to invade the country like the two other groups. They were there for occupation.
“So, once the Germans had entered, these men would have tried everything to stop the occupation.
Pictured: Irene Lockley from South Milford shared the story of her recruitment to Section VII. She told her daughter that she was trained to ‘kill and maim as many enemies as possible’ in case the German army invaded Britain.
‘So whether that was girls going out and killing German officers, teenage boys sniping at the foreign forces and presumably British collaborators as well, guys going in and blowing up factories so they couldn’t be used by the German army.
‘These tended to be younger people just because they wouldn’t have been called up during the frantic invasion period so they were often quite young teenagers.’
Irene Lockley of South Milford in North Yorkshire was among them. Before she died, she revealed to Jenny that she had been trained to “kill, maim, and cause as many damage to the enemy’ as she could.”
She shared with us how other relatives were taught “how to derail trains”, how to make Molotov cocktails and how to garrotte, and many other war skills.”
Fourteen-year-old boys were recruited, and one of them was a high school senior.
In one instance, four teenager boys who excelled in school cadets were chosen to be snipers. Pictured: A schoolboy member of the Home Guard trains younger boys during the Second World War in Britain, March 1941
Chatterton, author of the new book Britain’s Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins, told MailOnline: ‘All of this stuff goes against that perception and narrative which built up after the war that basically our defence against the invasion was Dad’s Army standing on the cliffs with a pitchfork.
“Actually there was a whole layer of civilian defense to protect against a German invasion.
“If we were defeated militarily we had prepared a resistance force, which is an amazing thing.
“Obviously, we had the Channel’s permission to make that happen but this is an amazing story and it is still being told.
The publication of Britain’s Secret Defences: Spies, Civilian Saboteurs and Assassins is expected to be out later in the year.
Churchill’s Secret Army: How Britain was prepared to face the German invasion of World War Two
Section VII civilian units are not known. However, Britain trained and prepared several layers civilian defence in order to resist German invaders during World War II.
Andrew Chatterton’s book Britain’s Secret Defences – Civilian Saboteurs and Spies and Assassins outlines the various branches of civil defense that were prepared to risk everything for the nation.
Auxiliary Units was a network of secretly trained volunteers who were prepared to serve as Britain’s last line of defense during World War Two.
The British Resistance Archive says they worked in a network made up of cells originating from underground locations around the UK.
Hampshire Auxiliary Unit Patrol: Ordinary citizens who had been highly-trained
Chatterton explained the Auxiliary Units to MailOnline. He said: “When the Germans invade, these guys would disappear to secret underground bunkers.
“They ran all the way across the country. The men would have gone out in the night to blow the supply chains up for the German Army. They had a lifespan of just two weeks.
Also, he writes about Special Duties Branch. It was established in 1940 to provide a network for civilian spy leaders.
‘These were set up again during the invasion period, and they were ordinary civilians – mothers and elderly women and doctors and publicans – so people who could stand on the street and not attract attention,’ Chatterton said.
A secret underground bunker surviving from a Auxiliary Unit Patrol in Devon
‘They would spy on the German armies coming through their village and write down what they’d seen. They were highly skilled in recognising weapons and uniforms, as well as other skills.
Key Men, Observers, and Runners made up the network. Every person was provided with a code and password. The information could be transferred from one person or another without the need for them to meet.
After a German invasion of the Front Line, runners would have been dispatched to British troops to report on their progress.
According to reports, there were 3250 participants. However, no complete record of Special Duties Network personnel or individuals is available.
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