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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!

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

Six Day War[1]Yom Kippur[1]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[2]

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[57]

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[27]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[10]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]

Iain Standen

Accredited Guide Number: 24

Iain Standen is CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, the organisation that runs Bletchley Park the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.

A former Regular Army officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, he served in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Cyprus, as well as on operational deployments to Northern Ireland (where he was Mentioned in Despatches), Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Iraq. He commanded at troop, squadron, unit and group level, graduated from the Army Staff College and served in a range of staff appointments. This extensive military experience allows him to provide a wide–ranging soldier’s insight on his battlefield tours.

As the son of an RAF officer and the grandson of an Army officer it could be said that the military and military history are in his blood. His interest in battlefields stretches back to his childhood, and he visited his first, Bosworth Field, over 30 years ago. Since then he has toured the battlefields of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the United States, covering battles and campaigns from the Seven Years War to the Second World War. Whilst maintaining a broad interest in a range of campaigns, the American Civil War remains his favourite era. He began leading military battlefield tours with the troops under his command in 1987 and led military tours and staff rides throughout his Army career.

Iain has been working commercially for Anglia Battlefield Tours since 2001 and has guided tours for them on the battlefields of Waterloo, Ypres, Somme and Normandy.

He is a member of the American Civil War Roundtable (United Kingdom) and lectures on American Civil War subjects. He also maintains an interest in military history and battlefield preservation through membership of The Battlefields Trust, the Western Front Association and the Civil War Preservation Trust. He was an early member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (member number 28) and completed his Validation in August 2006.

Battles American Civil War American War of Independence Antietam...Battle of Minden Battle of the Somme Bull Run Franco-Prussian War Gettysburg Meuse-Argonne Monocacy Napoleon Verdun WWI Waterloo Ypres

Countries Belgium Europe France...North America United States of America Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsMilitary & VeteranSchool Groups

EmailIain.standen@btopenworld.com

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Iain Standen

Accredited Guide Number: 24