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The guide directory details all Guild Accredited Members. Each of these has passed our Accreditation Programme – so you can be sure they are all high quality guides and will give you a great tour!

You can filter by battle/campaign or country and then click on the name of an Accredited Guide to read their biography. Most Accredited Guides have contact details by which you can contact them directly. If not, or if you want to pass a message to them, please contact them via the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

Many Guides can develop bespoke personalised tours and can research where particular ancestors might have fought or died. If you want to advice on following a particular ancestor and you have not identified a particular Accredited Guide, please contact the Guild Secretary. We guarantee we’ll have somebody that can help you!

Finally, this list shows only our Accredited Guides. Our Ordinary Members are not listed here and if you would like to check whether a particular individual is a member of the Guild, or for any other further help, please contact the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

Battle

All American War of Independence[1]Post WWII[0]

Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

Viking battles in Yorkshire[1]Roman Invasion of Britain[2]Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest[1]

Middle Ages[10]

Poitiers[2]Edward I’s conquest of North Wales[2]Battle of Lewes[2]Bosworth[2]Agincourt[4]Towton[2]Crecy[3]Hastings Campaign[3]Norman Conquest of England[3]

Fulford[2]Stanford Bridge[3]Hastings[2]

The 100 Years War[6]

Sluys[1]Poitiers[1]

British Civil Wars[7]

Sedgemoor[1]The Boyne[1]Culloden[2]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]Wars of the Roses[6]English Civil War[8]

Marston Moor[1]London in the Civil War[1]

Monmouth Rebellion[2]The Jacobite Rebellions[3]

Marlborough's campaigns[2]

Blenheim[1]Minden[1]

Napoleonic Wars[19]British Colonial Conflicts[3]

Boer War[2]American War of Independence[4]Seven Years' War[2]

Battle of Minden[3]

Anglo/Zulu War[4]

Isandlwana[1]Rorke's Drift[2]Eshowe[1]Gingindlovu[1]Hlobane[1]Ulundi[1]

Crimean War[2]American Civil War[3]

Bull Run[1]Antietam[1]Gettysburg[1]Monocacy[1]

Franco-Prussian War[1]Austro-Prussian War[1]

Koniggratz[1]

20th Century

Falklands War[2]First World War[51]Second World War[53]

Holocaust[2]Auschwitz[1]Fall of Berlin[9]Operation Amherst[2]Ardennes[13]Hürtgen Forest[3]Battle of the Bulge[14]Bastogne[7]Band of Brothers[3]Operation Dragoon[1]Ortona[1]Lorraine Campaign[1]Aachen[1]Combined Bomber Offensive[2]Battle of Overloon[1]Fall of France[9]Arras[5]Battle of Calais[5]UK Home Front[1]Operation Frankton[1]Monte Cassino[3]Cassino[11]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Eastern Front - Estonia[1]

Kursk[1]30 Corps[1]Operation Husky[4]Battle of Sicily[6]Dunkirk[13]Battle of Britain[2]Bruneval Raid[3]Dieppe[10]Operation Jubilee[5]Arnhem[25]Operation Market Garden[18]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[11]Operation Berlin[8]Operation Aintree[1]Gothic Line[3]Gustav Line[2]Battle of Halbe[2]Liberation of the Netherlands[8]London Blitz[2]Normandy Preparations in UK[5]D-Day[22]Operation Overlord[9]Normandy Landings[24]Normandy Campaign[9]Norway 1940 Campaign[3]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[3]Operation Avalanche[3]Salerno[5]Operation Chariot[2]St Nazaire & Dieppe[3]Rhine Crossing[7]Operation Infatuate[3]Operation Blockbuster[3]Operation Veritable[6]Operation Plunder[5]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[6]Operation Shingle[3]Battle of Anzio[7]Anzio[4]Reichswald Forest[4]Peenemunde[2]Krakow[1]

Cold War[9]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[1]

Ian Gumm

Accredited Guide Number: 62

Ian Gumm is the founder and CEO of In The Footsteps, a leading independent battlefield tour operator, as well as a full-time battlefield historian and guide. He is a former Chair of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides and has led tours since 1998. During that time, Ian has visited the battlefields of Anglo-Saxon England, the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, the English Civil Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, the First World War, the Second World War … and much more.

“Touring the battlefield is my passion, it is what I love to do, and I feel extremely privileged to be able to escort people around the battlefields of the world visiting some of the most important historical sites that have shaped the world in which we live.”

Ian served in the British Army as a Reservist for thirty-six years during which time he commanded B (Rorke’s Drift) Company of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Wales; commanded the Regimental Contingent at the affiliation parade with 121 South African Infantry Battalion (a Zulu Battalion) in South Africa; was the officer responsible for the training of all junior and potential officers in Wales; trained junior managers in the Defence Industry as the Officer Commanding the Sandhurst Leadership Challenge in Wales, and was the staff officer responsible for the First World War Centenary Commemorations for Wales.

His experience, gained both on the battlefield and with the British Army, allows him to add a soldier’s perspective and paint the picture of a battle on the canvas of the countryside. This enhances your tour experience, as Ian is not only able to impart an understanding of the history, but also a feel for the men who took part in the battle and the ground over which it was fought.

“So, whether you are ‘following in the footsteps’ of an ancestor or relative on a genealogy tour; ‘following in the footsteps of heroes’ on a more general tour or retracing the steps of a military unit or formation on a battlefield study or staff ride you can be sure that Ian will deliver an experience that will leave you with memories that last a lifetime.”

As an Accredited Member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, Ian endeavours to maintain the high standards, both in terms of service and good practice, that are commensurate with the Guild’s ethos. In addition to being an Accredited Member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, Ian is a member of the Western Front Association, the Battlefields Trust, the Last Post Association, and the Society for Army Historical Research (SAHR).

As well as leading battlefield tours, Ian delivers interesting and informative military history talks and presentations to professional organisations, businesses, clubs, societies and other groups, small or large.

Battles Agincourt Almaraz Anglo/Zulu War...Anzio Ardennes Arnhem Arras Arras Aubers Ridge Auschwitz Badajoz Bapaume Bastogne Battle of Amiens Battle of Anzio Battle of Lewes Battle of Lys & Op Blucher Battle of Sicily Battle of The Aisne Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Somme Bosworth British Civil Wars British Colonial Conflicts Bullecourt Cambrai Cassino Charleroi Ciudad Rodrigo Crecy D-Day Delville Wood Dieppe Dunkirk Edward I’s conquest of North Wales Eindhoven & Nijmegen Eshowe Fall of Berlin Fall of France Festubert Fromelles Fuentes de Onoro Fulford Gallipoli Gingindlovu Hastings Hastings Campaign Hindenburg Line Hlobane Holocaust Isandlwana Krakow Le Hamel Liberation of the Netherlands Ligny Loos Ludendorff Offensives Messines Meuse-Argonne Middle Ages Mons Napoleon Neuve Chappelle Norman Conquest of England Normandy Landings Operation Avalanche Operation Berlin Operation Husky Operation Infatuate Operation Jubilee Operation Market Garden Operation Michel Operation Overlord Operation Plunder Operation Shingle Operation Veritable Passchendaele Poitiers Poitiers Polygon Wood Quatre Bras Reichswald Forest Retreat to the Marne Rhine Crossing Rorke's Drift Salamanca Salerno Sambre Crossing Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren Sluys Stanford Bridge Talavera The 100 Years War The War of the Seventh Coalition Towton US Operations on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Ulundi Verdun Villers-Bretonneux Vimy Vimy Ridge Vittoria WWI WWII Wars of the Roses Waterloo Waterloo Campaign Wavre Wellington’s Peninsular battles Ypres

Countries Africa Austria Belgium...Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Greece Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Poland Portugal Scotland South Africa Spain Turkey United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

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John Patrick Hamill

Accredited Guide Number: 59

I am a retired Army Quartermaster (Logistics) and have been guiding professionally since 2009.

My interest in battlefields began as a boy when I caused uproar in his father’s garden by digging trenches and having battles with model soldiers in my father’s flower/vegetable beds. I joined the Army, aged 15 as a Junior Leader in 1961. Since then, my Regular Army career has been with many different Regiments and Corps (Middlesex, Queens, Royal Army Medical Corps and the Intelligence Corps), spanned 47 years, with operational experience in Northern Ireland and The Former Republic of Yugoslavia. In June 2002 I was awarded an MBE for my service.

I have had an extensive career serving across the globe. my infantry experience, both tactical and administrative gives me a soldier’s eye for ground with its impact on various weapon systems and the logistic support needed to maintain armies in the field.

I have an interest in medieval battles such as the Battle of Lewes and Wolverhampton, as well as the English Civil War. I have researched and led a Tour of the Battle of Waterloo in the past and have added this to my list of tours. Another area I am researching is the various Battles of the Hundred Years War with France and anticipate being qualified to take Tours in these battles.

I am also well qualified to lead tours on many of the battlefields of both World Wars.

Battles Battle of Lewes Battle of the Bulge Delville Wood...Middle Ages Napoleon Normandy Landings Passchendaele Polygon Wood Verdun WWI WWII Waterloo

Countries Belgium Europe France...Western Europe

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