Are you looking ….
- for a battlefield guide for your next trip?
- as an existing battlefield guide, for the membership benefits of being part of a professional organisation?
- to take up battlefield guiding and/or have a keen interest in military and want the resources to achieve or enhance that?
If so, then you need look no further than the International Guild of Battlefield Guides!
Find a Battlefield Guide
Find an Accredited Battlefield Guide who can help you to explore the battlefields – search by group or tour type, battle, or country.
Joining The Guild
Find out more about the International Guild of Battlefield Guides’ membership benefits and the Accreditation Progamme.
Coming Up
A Tour on the Open Wave
One of the series of Guild webinars, given by Tim Stoneman, will take place on Monday 16 March, commencing at 1930 (UK time).
The Guild’s Accreditation Manual states “Battles take place on land, on the sea or in the air, or a combination of them. Thus “ground” can be taken literally or to mean “the environment in which the battle took place”.” Tim will expand upon this statement from a maritime point of view, and explore a range of options for delivering an effective tour encompassing naval battles and campaigns – without (necessarily) getting the audience’s feet wet.
Recce: Bavaria
This will include Battlefield of Blenheim , the German Great War Museum at Ingolstadt and Dachau Concentration Camp.
Note that April 1 is a place marker in the calendar rather than the actual start date which is to be advised
For more information contact the organiser John Cotterill via the Guild Secretary, or via the Member contact details
Guild Recce – Easter Rising, Dublin April 1916
In France in 1916, plans were being drawn up to relieve the pressure on Verdun; in Dublin plans were being finalised for an insurrection. The Easter Rising would see ordinary men and women become national heroes who would shape Ireland’s destiny.
Join me in Dublin on May 1st to 3rd 2026 as we look at various locations and learn about the people involved.
Operation Frankton/Operation Chariot Recce (dates tba)
THIS RECCE IS BEING PUT BACK TO 2026 SO AS NOT TO CLASH WITH OTHER EVENTS. THE DATES ARE MERELY A PLACE SAVER AND ARE TO BE CONFIRMED.
Operation Frankton was the famous WW2 raid on German blockade running shipping in Bordeaux, France. The raid was carried out by the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (RMBPD), which was part of Combined Operations. Inserted by the submarine HMS Tuna, five folding kayaks, (Cockleshells) paddled up the Gironde and attacked the cargo ships with limpet mines. The recce is a detailed study of the intelligence, planning, execution and outcomes of a strategic mission that ended with only two of the ten men surviving the mission, including “Blondie” Haslar and Bill Sparks, (who used an MI9 escape line), with six being executed by the Germans and two dying from hypothermia.
The St Nazaire raid (Operation Chariot) was an attack by Combined Operations to destroy the dry dock in the port of St Nazaire to prevent it being used by the German battleship Tirpitz and force her to return to Northern Germany for maintenance.
