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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.

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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]

Dudley Giles

Accredited Guide Number: 26

Dudley Giles has been an active battlefield guide for over 25 years and was an early member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

A former British Army officer, Dudley managed, in a career spanning nearly 34 years, to serve a third of his time in North West Europe (Germany and Belgium), a third in the UK (including three residential tours in Northern Ireland) and a third in ‘exotic’ locations such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, Kosovo and the flanks of NATO (Norway and Turkey). In 1990 he attended the Army Command and Staff Course, and, in 2001, was serving as NATO’s senior military police officer during the climactic events post 9/11. In 2006/7 he deployed to Afghanistan as General Richards’ senior police advisor and his last appointment in the Army before finally retiring in 2012 he was Deputy Provost Marshal (Army).

In 2006/7 Dudley found himself on the modern battlefields of Afghanistan and was able to help soldiers, diplomats and journalists understand the historical similarities between the present and past experience of British soldiers in that country. On his return he acted as the chief battlefield guide for the very first Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride and continued to support the charity in that capacity until 2013. This experience eventually led him to set up a specialist touring company -‘Battlefields by Bike.

Dudley took his first degree in Law (LL.B (Hons) at the University of Leeds in 1979 and later a Masters Degree in British First World Studies (2010) – graduating with Distinction.

When not running his own tours or carrying out research, Dudley works as an independent contractor for schools, military groups, families and other battlefield touring companies.

Battles 30 Corps ANZACS on the Western Front Advance to Victory...Anzio Ardennes Arnhem Arras Arras Aubers Ridge Band of Brothers Bapaume Bastogne Battle of Amiens Battle of Anzio Battle of Calais Battle of Halbe Battle of Lys & Op Blucher Battle of Minden Battle of Sicily Battle of The Aisne Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Somme British Civil Wars Bruneval Raid Bullecourt Cambrai Canadians on the Western Front Cassino Cold War Combined Bomber Offensive D-Day Delville Wood Dieppe Dunkirk Eastern Front - Estonia Eindhoven & Nijmegen English Civil War Fall of Berlin Fall of France Festubert Fromelles Gallipoli Gothic Line Gustav Line Hindenburg Line Kursk Le Hamel Liberation of the Netherlands London Blitz Loos Lorraine Campaign Ludendorff Offensives Messines Meuse-Argonne Middle Ages Mons Monte Cassino Neuve Chappelle Normandy Campaign Normandy Landings Normandy Preparations in UK Norway 1940 Campaign Operation Avalanche Operation Berlin Operation Blockbuster Operation Chariot Operation Dragoon Operation Husky Operation Infatuate Operation Jubilee Operation Market Garden Operation Michel Operation Overlord Operation Plunder Operation Sea Lion Operation Shingle Operation Veritable Ortona Passchendaele Polygon Wood Reichswald Forest Retreat to the Marne Rhine Crossing Salerno Sambre Crossing Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren St Nazaire & Dieppe The Great Patriotic War The Last 100 Days The Somme 1918 Villers-Bretonneux Vimy Vimy Ridge WWI WWII Waterloo Ypres Yugoslav Wars (1990s)

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Dudley Giles

Accredited Guide Number: 26