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Viking battles in Yorkshire[1]Roman Invasion of Britain[1]Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest[1]

Middle Ages[9]

Poitiers[1]Edward I’s conquest of North Wales[1]Battle of Lewes[1]Bosworth[1]Agincourt[5]Towton[1]Crecy[4]Hastings Campaign[2]Norman Conquest of England[3]

Fulford[2]Stanford Bridge[3]Hastings[2]

The 100 Years War[4]

Sluys[1]Poitiers[1]

British Civil Wars[5]

Sedgemoor[1]The Boyne[1]Culloden[1]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]War of the Roses[4]English Civil War[5]

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

Monmouth's Rebellion[1]The Jacobite Rebellions[2]

Marlborough's Campaigns[1]

Blenheim[1]Minden[1]

Napoleonic Wars[16]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[1]Eshowe[1]Gingindlovu[1]Hlobane[1]Ulundi[1]

Crimean War[2]American Civil War[1]

Bull Run[1]Antietam[1]Gettysburg[1]Monocacy[1]

Franco-Prussian War[1]Austro-Prussian War[1]

Koniggratz[1]

20th Century

Russian Revolution and Civil War[1]Falklands War[1]First World War[43]Second World War[44]

Holocaust[1]Fall of France[2]Fall of Berlin[1]Operation Frankton[1]Operation Cockleshell[1]Normandy Preparations in UK[3]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]Bastogne[3]Operation VERITABLE[2]Sicily[2]Anzio[1]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Leningrad (St Petersburg)[1]Moscow[1]Stalingrad (Volgograd)[1]

Kursk[1]30 Corps[1]Battle of Anzio[3]Ardennes[4]Arnhem[17]Arras[1]Auschwitz[1]Battle of Britain[2]Battle of the Bulge[9]Battle of Calais[2]Cassino[7]Commando Raids of Bruneval[2]D-Day[12]Dieppe[6]Dunkirk[6]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[3]Gothic Line[1]Gustav Line[1]Battle of Halbe[1]Liberation of Holland[2]Krakow[1]London Blitz[2]Normandy Landings[16]Norway 1940 Campaign[1]Operation Berlin[4]Operation Market Garden[7]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[1]Operation AVALANCHE[1]Operation CHARIOT[1]Operation HUSKY[1]Operation INFATUATE[1]Operation JUBILEE[2]Operation SHINGLE[1]Operation PLUNDER[1]Operation OVERLORD[2]Reichswald Forest[2]Peenemunde[1]Rhine Crossing[4]St Nazaire & Dieppe[3]Salerno[3]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[3]Sedan[1]Warsaw uprisings[1]

Cold War[9]Spanish Civil War[2]Vietnam War[1]Oman[1]

Anthony Rich

Accredited Guide Number: 74

Based near Birmingham, my guiding centres on, but is by no means restricted to, battles of all eras in and around the Midlands & Welsh Marches. I guide for a wide range of national and local organisations, small groups and individuals. I am Secretary of the Battlefields Trust’s Mercia Region.

My guiding is always on a not-for-profit basis or to raise funds for a pre-agreed charity. When presenting a battle I focus on the human aspects, aiming to bring the drama to life through some of history’s more colourful, but often forgotten, characters, through the recorded words of participants, and through the use of original artefacts and replicas. Born into a Diplomatic Service family I grew up amidst a wide variety of cultures, observing the importance of understanding the past to explain the present. After living behind the Iron Curtain, I served with the British Reserve Forces for 22 years during the Cold War. There I learnt how soldiers behave and armies work. After commanding a rifle company I was selected for international staff and liaison duties. Leading British & foreign regulars and reservists in a multi-national HQ, I was privileged to engage with foreign traditions, cultures and military thinking vastly different to the English-speaking experience.

Battlefield visitors often want to gain leadership and management insights. In presenting these aspects I draw on my experience over some 30 years as a senior manager in the public, private and voluntary sectors as well as my formal qualifications. They include an MPA (a public & voluntary sector specific MBA), the Army Staff College’s Reserves Command & Staff course, & the Emergency Planning College’s Strategic Command Course. On the basis of my experience The Chartered Management Institute elected me as a Fellow and the Institute of Directors as a Member.

Research into all eras of military history fascinates me, as does any opportunity to present a battle from a fresh angle. For example I used a tour of Naseby as a case study on “Prejudiced Thinking” for a public sector senior training day.

In 2016 I was awarded the Guild’s prestigious David Chandler prize for my research work.

Battles Battle of Teutoberger Forest Middle Ages Roman Invasion of Germany...WWI British Civil Wars WWII Napoleon Norman Conquest of England Waterloo Campaign Battle of the Somme D-Day Ypres

Countries England Wales Belgium...Western Europe Scotland Europe France Germany Netherlands United Kingdom

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Anthony Rich

Accredited Guide Number: 74