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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!

Finally, this list shows only our Accredited Guides. 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, please contact the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

Battle

All US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918[1]American War of Independence[1]Wellington's campaigns[1]Post WWII[0]

Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

Viking battles in Yorkshire[2]Roman Invasion of Britain[3]Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest[2]

Middle Ages[10]

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

Fulford[3]Stanford Bridge[4]Hastings[3]

The 100 Years War[6]

Sluys[1]Poitiers[1]

British Civil Wars[7]

Sedgemoor[2]The Boyne[1]Culloden[3]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]Wars of the Roses[7]English Civil War[9]

Lansdown[1]Roundway[1]Marston Moor[2]London in the Civil War[1]

Monmouth Rebellion[3]The Jacobite Rebellions[4]

Marlborough's campaigns[3]

Blenheim[2]Minden[2]

Napoleonic Wars[19]British Colonial Conflicts[3]

Boer War[3]American War of Independence[4]Seven Years' War[3]

Battle of Minden[4]

Anglo/Zulu War[5]

Isandlwana[2]Rorke's Drift[3]Eshowe[2]Gingindlovu[2]Hlobane[2]Ulundi[2]

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[47]Second World War[48]

Holocaust[1]Auschwitz[1]Fall of Berlin[9]Operation Amherst[3]Ardennes[13]Hürtgen Forest[3]Battle of the Bulge[13]Bastogne[7]Band of Brothers[3]Operation Dragoon[1]Ortona[2]Lorraine Campaign[2]Aachen[2]Combined Bomber Offensive[3]Battle of Overloon[1]Fall of France[9]Sedan[1]Arras[6]Battle of Calais[6]UK Home Front[2]Operation Frankton[2]Monte Cassino[4]Cassino[11]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[2]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Eastern Front - Estonia[1]

Kursk[1]30 Corps[2]Operation Husky[4]Battle of Sicily[7]Dunkirk[13]Battle of Britain[3]Bruneval Raid[4]Dieppe[11]Operation Jubilee[5]Arnhem[24]Operation Market Garden[16]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[11]Operation Berlin[7]Operation Aintree[1]Gothic Line[4]Gustav Line[3]Battle of Halbe[3]Liberation of the Netherlands[8]London Blitz[3]Normandy Preparations in UK[6]D-Day[22]Operation Overlord[9]Normandy Landings[25]Normandy Campaign[8]Norway 1940 Campaign[3]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[2]Operation Avalanche[2]Salerno[6]Operation Chariot[2]St Nazaire & Dieppe[3]Rhine Crossing[6]Operation Infatuate[3]Operation Blockbuster[3]Operation Veritable[6]Operation Plunder[4]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[6]Operation Shingle[3]Battle of Anzio[8]Anzio[5]Reichswald Forest[4]Peenemunde[2]Krakow[1]

Cold War[8]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[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 30 Corps 7 Years ANZACS on the Western Front...Aachen Advance to Victory Agincourt Almaraz Anglo/Zulu War Antiquity Anzio Ardennes Arnhem Arras Arras Aspern – Essling & Wagram Aubers Ridge Austerlitz Austerlitz Campaign Badajoz Band of Brothers Bapaume Bastogne Battle of Amiens Battle of Anzio Battle of Britain Battle of Calais Battle of Halbe Battle of Lewes Battle of Lys & Op Blucher Battle of Minden Battle of Overloon Battle of Sicily Battle of Teutoberger Forest Battle of The Aisne Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Somme Belleau Wood Blenheim Boer War Bosworth British Civil Wars Bruneval Raid Bullecourt Cambrai Canadians on the Western Front Cassino Ciudad Rodrigo Combined Bomber Offensive Crecy Culloden D-Day Delville Wood Dieppe Dunkirk Edward I’s conquest of North Wales Eindhoven & Nijmegen English Civil War Eshowe Fall of Berlin Fall of France Festubert Fromelles Fuentes de Onoro Fulford German Airborne Invasion of Crete Gingindlovu Gothic Line Gustav Line Hastings Hastings Campaign Hindenburg Line Hlobane Hürtgen Forest Isandlwana Lansdown Le Hamel Liberation of the Netherlands Ligny London Blitz Loos Lorraine Campaign Ludendorff Offensives Marlborough's campaigns Marston Moor Messines Meuse-Argonne Middle Ages Minden Monmouth Rebellion Mons Monte Cassino Napoleon Neuve Chappelle Norman Conquest of England Normandy Campaign Normandy Landings Normandy Preparations in UK Operation Aintree Operation Amherst Operation Berlin Operation Blockbuster Operation Frankton Operation Husky Operation Infatuate Operation Jubilee Operation Market Garden Operation Michel Operation Overlord Operation Plunder Operation Shingle Operation Veritable Ortona Passage of the Alps and Marengo Passchendaele Polygon Wood Quatre Bras Reichswald Forest Retreat to the Marne Rhine Crossing Roman Invasion of Britain Rorke's Drift Roundway Salamanca Salerno Sambre Crossing Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren Sedan Sedgemoor St. Mihiel Stanford Bridge Talavera The 100 Years War The Jacobite Rebellions The Last 100 Days The Somme 1918 Towton UK Home Front US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Ulundi Verdun Viking battles in Yorkshire Villers-Bretonneux Vimy Vimy Ridge Vitoria WWI WWII Wars of the Roses Waterloo Waterloo Campaign Wavre Wellington's campaigns Wellington’s Peninsular battles Wellington’s Pyrenees battles Ypres

Countries Austria Belgium Crete...Czech Republic France Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands United Kingdom

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

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

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

Countries Belgium France Germany...Italy Malta Netherlands Turkey

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

Emailbrianshaw835@gmail.comTel. 07722 432998