Find a Guide

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The “Find a Guide“ directory details all those Accredited Members who have chosen to advertise their expertise and services as guides on the Guild website. Each of these has passed our Accreditation Programme in which they have demonstrated the skills needed for us to say that they are high-quality guides who will give you a great tour.

When searching for a guide, we recommend that you filter by battle/campaign, country or capability and then click on the name of an Accredited Guide to read their biography. In stating their expertise and services, Accredited Members should be able to guide the particular battle or campaign on the battlefield. Sometimes physically guiding on that battlefield may be impossible or impractical, or it is presentation services that are required, in which case the Accredited Member should be able to guide the battle or campaign “remotely”.

As you will see, most Accredited Members have contact details by which you can contact them directly, and some have their own website, a Tripadvisor and/or a Google Review Page. If you are having difficulty in contacting them, please contact them via the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

Please note, the Guild does not recommend or endorse any of the commercial products or companies of the members listed below. We are not responsible for checking that those listed below have complied with the relevant legislation or regulations in the jurisdictions they are based or guide in. Many are members of ETOA or other local guiding associations and some have a local authorisation to work with children or vulnerable adults. But it is your responsibility to ensure they meet all the criteria you need for them to work with your group.

Finally, this list shows only our Accredited Members. 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 (for example satisfying a request for which you cannot seem to find a guide), please contact 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 based on information which you may have, and this is generally part of their service. If you want to advice on following a particular ancestor and / or help and advice on researching military aspects of family history, there are several Accredited Members who may be able to assist with your genealogical enquiries. A list of those members is here; if you would like to seek their assistance, contact details can be found by selecting their profile from those shown on this page.

Battle

All Ancient / Roman[6]

Roman Invasion of Britain[4]

Medway 43AD[1]

Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest c.9CE[2]

Middle Ages[13]

Viking battles[3]

Viking battles in Yorkshire[3]

Norman Conquest of England 1066[5]

Fulford 1066[3]Hastings 1066[3]Stanford Bridge 1066[3]

Barons' Wars[1]

Battle of Lewes 1264[2]

Edward I’s conquest of North Wales 1277-83[2]100 Years War 1337-1453[9]

Sluys 1340[1]Crecy 1346[3]Poitiers 1356[1]Agincourt 1415[5]

British Civil Wars[12]18th Century[7]

War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714[3]

Blenheim 1704[2]

War of the Austrian Succession 1741-1748[1]Seven Years' War 1756-1763[3]

Minden 1759[2]

American War of Independence 1775-1783[6]

Jersey 1779 & 81[1]Siege of Gibraltar 1779-83[1]

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802[0]

Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800[2]

19th Century[29]20th Century[52]

First World War 1914-18[46]

Western Front Allies of WW1[12]

The Indian Army[1]Soldiers of the British Empire WW1[5]The French on the Western Front[1]ANZACS on the Western Front[10]US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918[4]Canadians on the Western Front[9]

Western Front - The beginning (1914)[10]

Mons 1914[12]Retreat to the Marne 1914[6]Battle of The Aisne 1914[6]

Western Front - Stalemate (1915)[13]

Neuve Chappelle 1915[11]Aubers Ridge 1915[7]Festubert 1915[7]Loos 1915[10]

Gallipoli 1915-16[9]Salonika Front WW1[2]Western Front - Counterattack (1916)[27]

Battle of the Somme 1916[28]

Delville Wood 1916[11]Fromelles 1916[9]Bapaume 1916[7]Flers - Courcelette 1916[6]

Verdun 1916[9]

Western Front - Attrition (1917)[29]

Hindenburg Line 1917[7]Arras 1917[13]

Vimy Ridge 1917[14]Bullecourt 1917[8]

Messines 1917[14]Third Battle of Ypres 1917[29]

Polygon Wood 1917[10]Passchendaele 1917[15]

Cambrai 1917[10]

Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)[14]

German Spring Offensive 1918[10]

Operation Michel 1918[7]Belleau Wood 1918[6]Battle of Lys & Op Blucher 1918[4]Villers-Bretonneux 1918[11]

Le Hamel 1918[10]The Last 100 Days 1918[11]

Battle of Amiens 1918[8]The Somme 1918[8]Meuse-Argonne 1918[6]St. Mihiel 1918[4]Sambre Crossing 1918[4]

Italian Front WW1[2]

Asiago Plateau 1916[1]Caporetto 1917[1]Vittorio Veneto 1918[1]

Middle East Front WW1[2]

Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1[2]

Naval Battles WW1[2]Other WW1 themes[5]

Air Power WW1[2]Shot at Dawn WW1[2]Women and war WW1[3]Logistics WW1[2]Medical WW1[4]WW1 Poetry literature and art[2]

Spanish Civil War 1936-39[2]

Siege of Toledo 1936[1]Madrid 1936[1]Jarama 1937[1]Guadalajara 1937[1]May Days & Barcelona 1937[1]Brunete 1937[1]The Ebro 1938[1]

Second World War 1939-45[53]

Occupation of Europe (1940)[18]

Norway Campaign 1940[4]Fall of France 1940[17]

Sedan 1940[2]Arras 1940[6]Dunkirk 1940[14]Battle of Calais 1940[6]

The Occupation of the Channel Islands WW2[1]Operation Sealion (Seelöwe) 1940[2]Battle of Britain 1940[6]

UK Home Front WW2[3]

London Blitz WW2[3]

Mediterranean theatre WW2[6]

German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941[3]Siege of Malta 1940-42[5]

Air War over Europe WW2[6]

Combined Bomber Offensive WW2[5]

Naval battles WW2[3]

Battle of the Atlantic WW2[3]Operation Berlin 1941[3]

WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied Europe[9]

Channel Islands raids 1942-3[1]Operation Chariot - St Nazaire 1942[5]Bruneval Raid 1942[6]Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942[7]Operation Frankton - Bordeaux 1942[2]

Resistance in Occupied Europe WW2[1]

Battle of Gilieres 1944 - Haute Savoie[1]French Resistance WW2[2]S.O.E. in WW2[2]

Italian Front WW2[10]

Operation Husky 1943 - Sicily[7]Ortona 1943[3]Operation Avalanche 1943 - Salerno[2]Monte Cassino 1944[8]Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio[5]Gustav Line 1944[5]Gothic Line 1944-5[5]

Liberation of Europe (1944)[32]Eastern Front WW2[10]

Kursk 1943[1]Estonia 1944[1]Krakow 1945[1]Battle of Halbe 1945[3]Fall of Berlin 1945[11]

Asia and Pacific Fronts WW2[1]

Singapore 1942[1]

Advance into Germany (1945)[5]

Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing[6]Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest[6]

Other WW2 themes[3]

Soldiers of the British Empire WW2[1]Women and war WW2[1]Life under Nazi Occupation WW2[1]Hitler's Atlantic Wall[2]Holocaust[1]

Korean War 1950-53[1]Vietnam War 1954-75[1]Oman 1963-75[1]Falklands War 1982[2]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

21st Century[1]

Afghanistan 2001-21[1]

Frank Baldwin

Accredited Guide Number: 8

I am a freelance guide, historian and heritage professional. After retiring following ten years in the army as a Royal Artillery Officer, I became increasingly involved in interpreting and presenting battlefield heritage for the Battlefields Trust and The Royal British Legion. My interest in battlefield touring was triggered by noticing that the part of Germany in which we were training in the 1980s had been a battlefield in 1757. I had always been interested in military history and both my father and grandfather had fought in the world wars.

As a guide, my clients include small and large groups, businesses as well as educational and military groups. I was an early supporter of the Guild of Battlefield Guides and been part of its validation team, responsible for assessing guides’ competence, since 2008. I instruct on courses teaching battlefield guides and have been Guide Co-ordinator for the Liberation Route Europe.

In 2012 I was elected to the British Commission for Military History. My published work includes two books on D Day and Normandy, chapters in British Army Guide to the Western Front, and articles in military history journals. I write a military history blog https://theobservationpost.com

My interest and knowledge of military history stretches from Caesar to the Cold War and my guiding experience covers much of Europe. Besides the world wars and the Napoleonic era, I am also interested in the mid C19th wars between Prussia, Austria and France and the Severn Years War.

Two of my books are on artillery in Normandy and I am currently writing a battlefield guide to artillery on the First Day of the Somme in publication. The artillery story of both world wars is a little neglected and I offer battlefield tours to tell the artillery story under the brand www.gunnertours.com

One speciality is providing military background for people researching their ancestry. I have been a researcher for a company that makes a popular ancestry-based TV programme and have appeared on television myself.

I have been privileged to support some of the British Army centenary staff rides as a subject matter expert alongside academic historians. My clients include many military units and headquarters. I run a website offering advice to military units planning staff rides, battlefield studies or realities of war tours. www.staffrideservices.com

The links between military and business strategy fascinate me. I offer a service to help organisations to learn from other people’s mistakes using examples from statecraft and military history. www.businessbattlefields.com

I chaired the Battlefields Trust from 2008-2015 and was involved in many projects to preserve, interpret and present many of the Battlefields of Britain, including the re-discovery of the battlefields of Bosworth.

Battles Ancient / Roman Roman Invasion of Britain Battle of Teutoberger Forest c.9CE...Middle Ages Viking battles Viking battles in Yorkshire Norman Conquest of England 1066 Fulford 1066 Hastings 1066 Stanford Bridge 1066 Battle of Lewes 1264 Edward I’s conquest of North Wales 1277-83 100 Years War 1337-1453 Crecy 1346 Agincourt 1415 British Civil Wars Wars of the Roses 1455-87 Towton 1461 Bosworth 1485 English Civil War 1642-1651 Lansdown 1643 Roundway 1643 Marston Moor 1644 Monmouth Rebellion 1685 Sedgemoor 1685 The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1756 Culloden 1746 18th Century War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 Blenheim 1704 Seven Years' War 1756-1763 Minden 1759 Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Austerlitz 1805 Aspern – Essling 1809 Peninsular War 1808-13 Talavera 1809 Fuentes de Onoro 1811 Almaraz 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo 1812 Badajoz 1812 Salamanca 1812 Vitoria 1813 Waterloo Campaign 1815 Ligny 1815 Quatre Bras 1815 Waterloo Wavre 1815 British Colonial Conflicts Anglo/Zulu War 1879 Isandlwana 1879 Rorke's Drift 1879 Siege of Eshowe 1879 Gingindlovu 1879 Hlobane 1879 Ulundi 1879 Boer War 1899-1902 20th Century First World War 1914-18 Western Front Allies of WW1 ANZACS on the Western Front US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Canadians on the Western Front Western Front - The beginning (1914)Mons 1914 Retreat to the Marne 1914 Battle of The Aisne 1914 Western Front - Stalemate (1915)Neuve Chappelle 1915 Aubers Ridge 1915 Festubert 1915 Loos 1915 Western Front - Counterattack (1916)Battle of the Somme 1916 Delville Wood 1916 Fromelles 1916 Bapaume 1916 Verdun 1916 Western Front - Attrition (1917)Hindenburg Line 1917 Arras 1917 Vimy Ridge 1917 Bullecourt 1917 Messines 1917 Third Battle of Ypres 1917 Polygon Wood 1917 Passchendaele 1917 Cambrai 1917 Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)German Spring Offensive 1918 Operation Michel 1918 Belleau Wood 1918 Battle of Lys & Op Blucher 1918 Villers-Bretonneux 1918 Le Hamel 1918 The Last 100 Days 1918 Battle of Amiens 1918 The Somme 1918 Meuse-Argonne 1918 St. Mihiel 1918 Sambre Crossing 1918 Second World War 1939-45 Occupation of Europe (1940)Fall of France 1940 Sedan 1940 Arras 1940 Dunkirk 1940 Battle of Calais 1940 Battle of Britain 1940 UK Home Front WW2 London Blitz WW2 Mediterranean theatre WW2 German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941 Air War over Europe WW2 Combined Bomber Offensive WW2 Naval battles WW2 Operation Berlin 1941 WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied Europe Bruneval Raid 1942 Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942 Operation Frankton - Bordeaux 1942 Italian Front WW2 Operation Husky 1943 - Sicily Ortona 1943 Monte Cassino 1944 Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio Gustav Line 1944 Gothic Line 1944-5 Liberation of Europe (1944)Op Overlord Preparations in UK 1943-4 D-Day - Op Overlord 1944 Normandy Campaign and breakout 1944 Hürtgen Forest 1944 Lorraine Campaign 1944 Op Market Garden 1944 - Arnhem Eindhoven Nijmegen Aachen 1944 Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-45 Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren 1944-5 Operation Infatuate 1944 - Antwerp Op Aintree 1944 - Battle of Overloon Operation Amherst 1944 - Netherlands Op Blockbuster 1944 - Canadian drive to Rhine Battle of the Bulge 1944-5 Band of Brothers 101 Airborne Eastern Front WW2 Battle of Halbe 1945 Fall of Berlin 1945 Advance into Germany (1945)Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest

Countries Austria Belgium Crete...Czech Republic Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands Scotland United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

Caters For Bespoke GroupCollege GroupsFamilies...IndividualsLeadership & Management TrainingManagement DevelopmentPilgrimage GroupsSmall GroupsWebsite

Emailfrank@baldwinbattlefieldtours.comTel.+44 7813179668 Websitewww.baldwinbattlefieldtours.com

David Wilson

Accredited Guide Number: 81

David’s background includes 45 years of military service in both the Regular Army and Reserve. He graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in December 1975 into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. He has completed a wide variety of regimental, training and staff postings, including operational tours of duty in Uganda with the Commonwealth Military Training Team (1983) and in Cambodia with the UN (1991-92). In 2006-07 he was deployed as an Operations Analyst in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2004-05 he served as the ADF Liaison Officer to the USMC-led headquarters with other international assistance forces based in Thailand during the tsunami relief operation.

His keen interest for military history is long-standing and widely varied. This includes being involved as a specialist technical adviser to the movies “Breaker Morant” and “Gallipoli” which were filmed in South Australia in the early 1980s where he was posted at the time.

While researching various aspects of family involvement in WW1, he was invited to co- author the history of the 19th Infantry Battalion AIF. It was one of the many untold stories of the Great War and “Fighting Nineteenth” was published in June 2011. As a result of this work, he has set up his own business AIF Research Services which assists families and other interested groups to track their First AIF ancestors both in Australia, as well as providing advice for potential battlefield tourists. David is regularly booked to speak to local historical societies on a variety of WW1 topics.

Battles Middle Ages 100 Years War 1337-1453 Sluys 1340...Crecy 1346 Poitiers 1356 Agincourt 1415 British Civil Wars The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1756 Culloden 1746 19th Century British Colonial Conflicts Anglo/Zulu War 1879 Isandlwana 1879 Rorke's Drift 1879 Siege of Eshowe 1879 Gingindlovu 1879 Hlobane 1879 Ulundi 1879 20th Century First World War 1914-18 Western Front Allies of WW1 ANZACS on the Western Front Western Front - Counterattack (1916)Battle of the Somme 1916 Fromelles 1916 Bapaume 1916 Flers - Courcelette 1916 Western Front - Attrition (1917)Messines 1917 Third Battle of Ypres 1917 Polygon Wood 1917 Passchendaele 1917 Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)German Spring Offensive 1918 Operation Michel 1918 Villers-Bretonneux 1918 Le Hamel 1918 The Last 100 Days 1918 Battle of Amiens 1918 The Somme 1918 Middle East Front WW1 Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1 Second World War 1939-45 Asia and Pacific Fronts WW2 Singapore 1942

Countries Asia Australasia Australia...Belgium Eastern Europe Europe France Scotland Singapore South-East Asia Turkey Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBattlefield StudiesBattlefield Walks...Bespoke GroupClubs and SocietiesCollege GroupsCorporate ToursCruise shipEvening PresentationsFamiliesFilm workIndividualsMilitary & VeteranPilgrimage GroupsReenactorsSchool GroupsSmall GroupsStaff RidesWebsite

Emailwilson22@tpg.com.auTel (mobile)+61 416339714Tel (land)+612 9418 4406Website19btn.wordpress.com

Allan Wood

Accredited Guide Number: 66

Allan served for 22 years in the Regular Army in the 17^th/21^st Lancers and Queens Royal Lancers, a career which ended at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School, Lulworth. Allan was later commissioned into the TA serving for a further 9 years firstly with the Dorset and later the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in Bovington where he began guiding battlefield tours.

Allan’s first battlefield tour as a guide was for the Yeomanry to Normandy in 1999. He has since guided nearly 200 battlefield tours for both Regular and Territorial Army units, schools and numerous adult groups to the Western Front, North West Europe plus other campaigns outside of the two World Wars including Waterloo and Agincourt. Allan has guided many ANZAC focused tours of the Western Front, 1916-1918. Allan retired from teaching to give himself the time to be an active Battlefield Guide and works freelance for several companies and organisations. Allan also regularly gives talks on Military History to a wide variety of audiences from those including very senior serving officers to local groups in the Dorset area and wider afield.

Allan is an Accredited Member of (Badge Number 66) of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides and a current Validator for candidates on the Path to their own Badge. He is a member of the Western Front Association, Royal Lancers Regimental Association and a Trustee for the Dorset Yeomanry Association.

Allan is an Alumnus of the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover. Whilst in the Army he studied and graduated through the Open University, later training as teacher at the University of Bath after which he taught History in a secondary school in Poole. Allan was later appointed as the Headteacher of the Compass, the school responsible for providing Alternative Provision for young people in Weymouth, Dorset. Allan still lives in Weymouth with his wife Angela, who tolerates both his guiding and golf in exchange for holidays in the sun! They have two grown up children.

Battles Middle Ages 100 Years War 1337-1453 Crecy 1346...Agincourt 1415 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Waterloo Campaign 1815 Ligny 1815 Quatre Bras 1815 Waterloo Wavre 1815 First World War 1914-18 Western Front Allies of WW1 Soldiers of the British Empire WW1 ANZACS on the Western Front Canadians on the Western Front Mons 1914 Retreat to the Marne 1914 Battle of The Aisne 1914 Western Front - Stalemate (1915)Neuve Chappelle 1915 Aubers Ridge 1915 Festubert 1915 Loos 1915 Western Front - Counterattack (1916)Battle of the Somme 1916 Delville Wood 1916 Fromelles 1916 Verdun 1916 Western Front - Attrition (1917)Hindenburg Line 1917 Arras 1917 Vimy Ridge 1917 Bullecourt 1917 Messines 1917 Third Battle of Ypres 1917 Passchendaele 1917 Cambrai 1917 Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)German Spring Offensive 1918 Belleau Wood 1918 Villers-Bretonneux 1918 Le Hamel 1918 The Last 100 Days 1918 Battle of Amiens 1918 Meuse-Argonne 1918 St. Mihiel 1918 Second World War 1939-45 Occupation of Europe (1940)Fall of France 1940 Arras 1940 Dunkirk 1940 Battle of Calais 1940 WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied Europe Operation Chariot - St Nazaire 1942 Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942 Liberation of Europe (1944)D-Day - Op Overlord 1944 Normandy Campaign and breakout 1944 Op Market Garden 1944 - Arnhem Eindhoven Nijmegen Arnhem 1944 Eindhoven 1944 Nijmegen 1944 Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge 1944-5 Cold War 1945-91

Countries Asia Belgium England...France Germany Luxembourg Netherlands Scotland South-East Asia Thailand United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

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