WW2 Secret Army of Great Britain 

A great video. Please could you add a link to www.staybehinds.com? The U.K. wide research group on Aux Units.

Me and a mate used to play in one of these in the 1960's. It was situated on the edge of a wooded hillside about four miles inland from the north Norfolk coast near to the place where the invasion wold have taken place had it happened. There was a lot of live ammunition scattered around in the woods, 303 rifle ammunition and some 38 revolver and a lot of hand grenades rusted together in lumps. There were also a good many coils of barbed wire and pigtail stakes. some of these had been used by the farmer for his fencing.

A lot of the members of auxiliary units took locations to the grave. They took the official secrets act very seriously. Many weapons and explosives caches are still out there in small bunkers such as this.

I am slowly searching my local area for a bunker like this, by map grid square by grid square. Where I live I think would have been of strategic importance having 4 linked, back to back reservoirs built in the 1800's serving the drinking water for Manchester. I have already found a well hidden (but maybe not at the time of building) as it now has 50- 70 years of foliage, trees, etc growing around it) possibly Cold War bunker or even WW2 for soldiers patrolling the reservoirs, that is now well covered in foliage and undergrowth, I cleared some of the undergrowth to reveal concrete and traced the outline of the outer diameter of the bunker, by removing soil, foliage, etc to reveal a concrete box shape, but the entrance way above ground (some sort of brick built anti blast shelter) as been almost demolished and the remaining ground level part concreted over, I presume the bunker underneath is flooded as the aluminium chimney/ air vent that still sticks partly up by around 6 inches on the roof is full of water right to the top. There are also other strange concrete blocks around both side of the reservoirs, now in the under growth, I have been told by an old man who has lived here all his life that steel cables ran across from the blocks either side to prevent low flying German aircraft trying to breach the dams, much like the 1942 Dambusters raid on the German dams. I have no reason to disbelieve him, as the blocks are fairly substantial and do have the similar sort of holes (Anchor points) and set up for cables, like on a suspension bridge, just running horizontal, instead of vertical.

Wonderful place and so great to get to see it. Thanks for sharing and Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter.

As a child,40 odd years ago (and they have been odd!!) I used to play in one of these hidden home guard hidy holes,obviously not knowing at the time,until I became involved with historic re enactment the historical significance of it. The last time I visited it,the long tunnel had caved in,but the shaft was still intact. I remember also bunk bed frames in there. It was in woods in the middle of nowhere,I wish I knew where it was now,but guess time has taken its toll. Great vid folks,keep them coming.

Hi IKS ' Some extra history to this video If you google map search Radnor Arms pub in Coleshill (oxfordshire) then just the other side of the road south there is a National trust marker That is the training camp for the people you talk about. in the video. They were chosen and then required to turn up at Highworth post office (a town close it Coleshill) and report to the post mistress an army truck would pick them up and drive them the to Coleshill, they drove them on a route that disoriantate them (spell check not working) but basically Highworth to Coleshill is about 3 miles on one road but the people were taken all over Oxfordshire to get there, they was then trained up in the bunker war fair you describe. Look up first Highworth post office and the Coleshill (national trust)......

Thanks guys very interesting all of your stuff👍🏻

Very interesting part of WW2 History! Please more...Best regards

That was sooooo interesting. Thanks for taking me along

Brilliant video.

IKS The Things That Must Be Done!!!:), Nice Work great sound effects!!, Thanks for keeping it real!!!

Another great video. It's always interesting to visit and explore the remnants of the war periods. Glad to see this one was in such good condition, sadly many war-related locations are subject to vandalism and disrespect. Always great to see a jem like this!

IKS went underground Hurrah, Hurrah You'll never guess at what they found Hurrah, Hurrah. Loved the tune at the end lol. Good vid

wow another good location guys its nice to see part of our history thats not been vandalised. you certainly visit some great locations with excellent information on each one. Keep up the good work documenting them.

Great location, great history. Excellent job lads

Great find and explore guys 🇬🇧🇬🇧🛸🛸👍

Awesome good to see it's in good condition🙂👍

Wow that's amazing

Amazing 👍!

Such an amazing find guys ! Wonder how many of these still exist across the country ?

Another great video guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should be on tv!!!!!!!!!!

I'm guessing many of the bunkers were constructed hastily and probably by teams that weren't from the are so the locations couldn't be easily revealed. I wonder if this had been restored a bit. Maybe in hopes for a museum, but funding fell through.

loving the ending music

Great find, love the History at the start which brings home that these people who volunteered faced certain death as the Germans would have classed them as Commandos and we all know what they did to them.😪

"I wonder where all the light fitting went?" "Ebay" Brilliant, haha. Another great video, fellas. Can't wait to see you guys down here in Pompey sometime in the new year :D

Some of what you took to be vent pipes were over small cubicles, this was more probably where messages were to be dropped down for the aux troops

Brilliant stuff lads. Had never heard of these, were they localised or nationwide? Best wishes, Paul Carpenter in Lower Boddington

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Most cars had 6 volt electrics, I'd guess that these hide outs had car battery and one or two lights.

The bitumen on the door was probably to keep fumes from seeping out between the gaps.

I want one so bad I've been working on something like that getting idea's from your videos

wow i would love too buy this and restore it to original condition

The slate top would have been used to keep food cool, like in old pantry’s.

Tunnel made my claustrophobia kick in

I have always wondered is there usually any signs of these from above ground? I mean the ventilation pipes must have been going somewhere above ground level.

Ian is the next david attenborough 🤣

I know of a big ww2 complex no one has documented, I emailed you on your website and sent you 2 pics of the block house, exhaust fan stack and air intake. No reply though ?

Why did the tunnel leading to it look more modern than the shelter?

The Germans had auxilliary units called the warewolves. It proved less than effective as a war tactic.

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Some of the wiring is post ww2 and the bunker seems very big for an aux force bunker. This looks more like a command post as there are old telephone wires in the room you thought had a genny in it

Miss Ean

Movie 1917 coming out in Dec 19. WW1 was a crap war

WOW! I've never seen one in such good shape. Most are completely obliterated. The history of the auxiliary units was truly fascinating and quite dark in places.