The ‘Oil Patch Warrior’, a statue in the Dukes Wood Nature Reserve commemorating the 44 roughnecks who arrived from Oklahoma in 1942 to develop the Dukes Wood oilfield (photograph © A. Forster). The ‘Oil Patch Warrior’, a statue in the Dukes Wood Nature Reserve commemorating the 44 roughnecks who arrived from Oklahoma in 1942 to develop the Dukes Wood oilfield (photograph © A. Forster). F. G. Bell et al. Geological Society, London, Engineering Geology Special Publications 2009;22:1-24 © The Geological Society of London 2009