Editing Great Train Robbery (1963) (section)

===Accomplices===
William Gerald Boal (22 October 1913 – 26 June 1970), an accomplice after the fact of Roger Cordrey, was convicted as being one of the robbers, despite playing a role no different from the many other accomplices of the various train robbers. Boal died in jail.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-boal.htm |title=Thames Valley Police – The Great Train robbery – William (Bill) Gerald Boal |publisher=Thamesvalley.police.uk |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220074653/http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-boal.htm |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=chris |url=http://www.ronniebiggs.com/?p=826 |title=William Boal: The Great Train Robbery's forgotten victim |publisher=Ronnie Biggs |date=14 August 2013 |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220095012/http://www.ronniebiggs.com/?p=826 |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=June 2019}}

Leonard "Lennie" Denis Field (born 1931, date of death unknown)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-field.htm |title=Thames Valley Police – The Great Train robbery – Leonard Dennis Field |publisher=Thamesvalley.police.uk |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220075255/http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-field.htm |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> helped with the purchase of the Leatherslade Farm hideout, paying the deposit of £5,000 in return for a 'drink' of £12,000. Lennie Field was allowed to think that the plan was to hijack a lorry load of cigarettes.<ref>The Train Robbers, Piers Paul Read, P.74</ref> Despite not being in on the robbery, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years (20 years for conspiracy to rob and five years for obstructing justice), which was later reduced to five. He was released from jail in 1967 and went to live in north London.

John Denby Wheater (born 17 December 1921,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-wheat.htm |title=Thames Valley Police – The Great Train robbery – John Denby Wheater |publisher=Thamesvalley.police.uk |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220075156/http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-museum/aboutus-museum-gtr/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang/aboutus-museum-gtr-gang-wheat.htm |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> died 18 July 1985<ref>Source: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Site accessed on 21 January 2018.</ref>) was the employer of Brian Field. He was convicted and sentenced to three years. He died in Harrogate, near Leeds, aged 63.