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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]

Six Day War[1]Yom Kippur[1]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

Viking battles in Yorkshire[1]Roman Invasion of Britain[1]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[5]Towton[2]Crecy[4]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[6]

Sedgemoor[1]The Boyne[1]Culloden[2]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]Wars of the Roses[6]English Civil War[9]

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

Monmouth Rebellion[2]The Jacobite Rebellions[2]

Marlborough's campaigns[2]

Blenheim[1]Minden[1]

Napoleonic Wars[20]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[2]

20th Century

Falklands War[2]First World War[55]Second World War[58]

Holocaust[3]Auschwitz[2]Fall of Berlin[9]Operation Amherst[2]Ardennes[13]Hürtgen Forest[3]Battle of the Bulge[15]Bastogne[7]Band of Brothers[3]Operation Dragoon[2]Ortona[1]Lorraine Campaign[1]Aachen[2]Combined Bomber Offensive[2]Battle of Overloon[1]Fall of France[10]Sedan[1]Arras[6]Battle of Calais[6]UK Home Front[1]Operation Frankton[1]Operation Cockleshell[1]Monte Cassino[4]Cassino[12]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Eastern Front - Estonia[1]

Kursk[2]30 Corps[2]Operation Husky[4]Battle of Sicily[7]Dunkirk[14]Battle of Britain[3]Bruneval Raid[4]Dieppe[10]Operation Jubilee[5]Arnhem[28]Operation Market Garden[19]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[13]Operation Berlin[8]Operation Aintree[1]Gothic Line[4]Gustav Line[2]Battle of Halbe[2]Liberation of the Netherlands[11]London Blitz[3]Normandy Preparations in UK[6]D-Day[22]Operation Overlord[9]Normandy Landings[25]Normandy Campaign[10]Norway 1940 Campaign[3]Operation Sea Lion[2]The Siege of Malta[3]Operation Avalanche[3]Salerno[6]Operation Chariot[2]St Nazaire & Dieppe[4]Rhine Crossing[9]Operation Infatuate[3]Operation Blockbuster[3]Operation Veritable[7]Operation Plunder[5]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[8]Operation Shingle[3]Battle of Anzio[7]Anzio[5]Reichswald Forest[6]Peenemunde[2]Warsaw uprisings[1]Krakow[2]

Cold War[11]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[1]

Ewan Carmichael

Accredited Guide Number: 84

Ewan’s particular interests are Leadership, the Realities of War and Close Combat, through the ages, but particularly the ‘horse and musket’ era. On tour, he believes in balancing depth of research with enjoyment.

He is a direct successor to Wellington’s McGrigor as Director General Army Medical Services. He set up and led the British Army’s Air Assault Medical Regiment and then commanded all of the Army’s Field Hospitals operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was awarded an MBE for Squadron leadership in the First Gulf War and CBE for his direction of the Army Medical Services (AMS), at a time when the AMS achieved its highest battle casualty survival rate in history (halving the death rate).

A graduate of the Army Staff College and member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, his MA was on whether it is possible to create a strategy which endures. A Fellow of one of the Medical Royal Colleges, he is also an Apothecary and Freeman of the City of London.

Gregarious rather than combative by nature, he was surprised to be elected as President of the Combined Services Martial Arts Society by its members, and even more pleasantly surprised to win the first Worldwide Open tournament for renaissance sword & buckler at Hanover in 2010.

Battles 7 Years American War of Independence Arnhem...Austerlitz Austerlitz Campaign Austro-Prussian War Battle of Minden Blenheim Bosworth British Civil Wars British Colonial Conflicts Culloden D-Day English Civil War Koniggratz London in the Civil War Marston Moor Middle Ages Minden Napoleon Normandy Landings Sedgemoor The 100 Years War The Boyne The Jacobite Rebellions Towton Wars of the Roses Waterloo Campaign

Countries Austria Belgium Canada...Czech Republic Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Malta Netherlands North America Poland Portugal Scotland Slovakia Spain United Kingdom United States of America Wales Western Europe

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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 has led tours since 1998 and has visited the battlefield of the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, 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 training all junior and potential officers 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 fought the battle and the ground over which they were 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 Last Post Association and a registered tour guide with the European Tour Operators Association.

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 Dellville 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

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