While the role of the Home Guard during World War II has been widely celebrated, very little is known of their counterparts in the Auxiliary Units, who would have been Britain's last line of defence in the event of a Nazi invasion.
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He's typed a hundred thousand names into a computer program, creating a list of every Naval, Marine and Coast Guard death during World War II.
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They can look to the example of Coast Guard Commander Dorothy Stratton, who led the SPARS during World War II.
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During World War II, it was used as an observation post by the local Home Guard and Observer Corps.
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During World War II Mr Hartmann worked as a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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