For its first meeting of 2019, we welcomed Chris Pratt, Curator of the Museum of the British Resistance Organisation, Parham Airfield. Following the mass evacuation of troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in June 1940, Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet determined that the regular army required supplementing with guerrilla type troops who, in the event of German occupation would be responsible for ‘hitting the enemy in the comparatively soft spots behind zones of concentrated attack’.
Read a fuller talk-report about the Organisation here.