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Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

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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[52]Second World War[54]

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]

Paul Oldfield

Accredited Guide Number: 51

In a military career spanning 36 years, Paul served in most of the usual hotspots, including three years in Ulster, plus the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. Other appointments included running the MOD’s Africa team for three years, commanding a mountain and arctic warfare unit and a tour with the Gurkhas. With his military experience he is able to bring a soldier’s insight to battles of the past.

Paul was educated in Sheffield and at Victoria College, Jersey, where he became interested in the German occupation and fortifications. He ran his first tour in 1983 on the Somme and has been involved in WW1 and WW2 tours since. Paul is a member of the Western Front Association and Gallipoli Association. He joined the Guild in April 2008 and was presented with Badge 51 on 20th November 2010. He was heavily involved in the Guild’s support for Help for Heroes’ annual Big Battlefield Bike Ride from 2012, including leading the guiding team 2014-18.

In 1988 he co-authored Sheffield City Battalion in the Pals series. Cockleshell Raid was published in Pen & Sword’s Battleground Europe series in 2012 and Bruneval followed in 2013. He is currently writing a series of sixteen books, Victoria Crosses on the Western Front. The first was published in July 2014 and the final volume is expected in late 2025.

Battles 20 C.Advance to Victory Arras...Aubers Ridge Battle of The Aisne Battle of the Somme Bruneval Raid Cambrai Cassino D-Day Dieppe Dunkirk Festubert Gallipoli Loos Messines Mons Neuve Chappelle Normandy Landings Normandy Preparations in UK Operation Frankton Operation Market Garden Retreat to the Marne St Nazaire & Dieppe The Somme 1918 WWI WWII Ypres

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Paul Oldfield

Accredited Guide Number: 51