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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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Battle

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

Six Day War[1]Yom Kippur[1]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[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[3]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[7]English Civil War[8]

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

Monmouth Rebellion[2]The Jacobite Rebellions[2]

Marlborough's campaigns[2]

Blenheim[2]Minden[2]

Napoleonic Wars[20]British Colonial Conflicts[3]

Boer War[3]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[2]

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[52]Second World War[56]

Holocaust[3]Fall of France[7]Fall of Berlin[4]Operation Amherst[1]Hürtgen Forest[3]Normandy Campaign[4]Aachen[1]Operation BLOCKBUSTER[1]Operation Frankton[1]Operation Cockleshell[1]Normandy Preparations in UK[5]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]Bastogne[6]Operation VERITABLE[6]Sicily[3]Anzio[3]30 Corps[1]Battle of Anzio[5]Ardennes[9]Arnhem[24]Arras[2]Auschwitz[2]Battle of Britain[2]Battle of the Bulge[12]Battle of Calais[2]Cassino[10]Commando Raids of Bruneval[2]D-Day[18]Dieppe[8]Dunkirk[10]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[11]Gothic Line[3]Gustav Line[1]Battle of Halbe[1]Liberation of Holland[9]Krakow[2]London Blitz[2]Normandy Landings[22]Norway 1940 Campaign[1]Operation Berlin[6]Operation Market Garden[15]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[2]Operation AVALANCHE[2]Operation CHARIOT[1]Operation HUSKY[2]Operation INFATUATE[2]Operation JUBILEE[3]Operation SHINGLE[2]Operation PLUNDER[4]Operation OVERLORD[5]Reichswald Forest[4]Peenemunde[2]Rhine Crossing[7]St Nazaire & Dieppe[3]Salerno[5]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[7]Sedan[1]Warsaw uprisings[1]

Cold War[10]Spanish Civil War[2]Vietnam War[1]Oman[1]

Brian Shaw

Accredited Guide Number: 18

Brian Shaw is an Ex Warrant Officer in the Parachute Regiment who has been leading
battlefield tours for the past twenty years. Born in Nottingham in 1958 he joined the Army in
1974 as a Junior Soldier, progressing through a busy career specializing in Battlefield
Communications. Brian become a Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1995 and retired from the
Army in January 2013 after 38 years’ service.

Brian has had an extensive career serving across the globe, in Northern Ireland on operations
and from South Africa to the Arctic Circle and from California to Hong Kong, the long way
round, on training. This long Infantry experience and knowledge of tactics, give him a
soldier’s eye for ground and the implications of terrain on the weapon systems of any
chosen period.

Brian has a long-held interest in military history, particularly the Second World War. He
combines his own experiences and his knowledge of history to put his audience on a tour
within the experience of what the soldiers of the day saw, felt and experienced.
Whilst Brian’s passion is for the Second World War and specifically NW Europe 1944/45
(D–Day to the war’s end) but with a wide military history knowledge he is happy working with
groups on the battlefields of the Great War or others.

Brian has assisted in and personally planned and led tours on the Battle of Waterloo, The
Western Front, Gallipoli, France and Belgium 1940, Malta, the fighting in Normandy,
Operation Market–Garden, Aachen, the Hurtgen Forest, the Rhine Crossing (Plunder and
Varsity) and the Ardennes Offensive. Italy – Anzio and Cassino.

Battles Fall of France US Operations on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Hürtgen Forest...Belleau Wood St. Mihiel Normandy Campaign Aachen Operation BLOCKBUSTER WWI Gallipoli WWII Napoleon Operation VERITABLE Waterloo Campaign Battle of the Somme Battle of Anzio Battle of the Bulge Cassino Meuse-Argonne Mons Verdun Ypres Normandy Landings Vimy Operation Market Garden The Siege of Malta Rhine Crossing

Countries Belgium Turkey France...Germany Italy Malta Netherlands

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBespoke GroupCollege Groups...FamiliesIndividualsMilitary & VeteranSchool GroupsSmall Groups

Emailbrianshaw835@gmail.comTel. 07722 432998

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Brian Shaw

Accredited Guide Number: 18