Find a Guide

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The “Find a Guide“ directory details all those Accredited Members who have chosen to advertise their expertise and services as guides on the Guild website. Each of these has passed our Accreditation Programme in which they have demonstrated the skills needed for us to say that they are high-quality guides who will give you a great tour.

When searching for a guide, we recommend that you filter by battle/campaign, country or capability and then click on the name of an Accredited Guide to read their biography. In stating their expertise and services, Accredited Members should be able to guide the particular battle or campaign on the battlefield. Sometimes physically guiding on that battlefield may be impossible or impractical, or it is presentation services that are required, in which case the Accredited Member should be able to guide the battle or campaign “remotely”.

As you will see, most Accredited Members have contact details by which you can contact them directly, and some have their own website, a Tripadvisor and/or a Google Review Page. If you are having difficulty in contacting them, please contact them via the Guild Secretary via our Contacts Page.

Please note, the Guild does not recommend or endorse any of the commercial products or companies of the members listed below. We are not responsible for checking that those listed below have complied with the relevant legislation or regulations in the jurisdictions they are based or guide in. Many are members of ETOA or other local guiding associations and some have a local authorisation to work with children or vulnerable adults. But it is your responsibility to ensure they meet all the criteria you need for them to work with your group.

Finally, this list shows only our Accredited Members. 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 (for example satisfying a request for which you cannot seem to find a guide), please contact 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 based on information which you may have, and this is generally part of their service. If you want to advice on following a particular ancestor and / or help and advice on researching military aspects of family history, there are several Accredited Members who may be able to assist with your genealogical enquiries. A list of those members is here; if you would like to seek their assistance, contact details can be found by selecting their profile from those shown on this page.

Battle

All Ancient / Roman[6]

Roman Invasion of Britain[4]

Medway 43AD[1]

Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest c.9CE[2]

Middle Ages[13]

Viking battles[3]

Viking battles in Yorkshire[3]

Norman Conquest of England 1066[5]

Fulford 1066[3]Hastings 1066[3]Stanford Bridge 1066[3]

Barons' Wars[1]

Battle of Lewes 1264[2]

Edward I’s conquest of North Wales 1277-83[2]100 Years War 1337-1453[9]

Sluys 1340[1]Crecy 1346[3]Poitiers 1356[1]Agincourt 1415[5]

British Civil Wars[12]18th Century[7]

War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714[3]

Blenheim 1704[2]

War of the Austrian Succession 1741-1748[1]Seven Years' War 1756-1763[3]

Minden 1759[2]

American War of Independence 1775-1783[6]

Jersey 1779 & 81[1]Siege of Gibraltar 1779-83[1]

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802[0]

Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800[2]

19th Century[29]20th Century[52]

First World War 1914-18[46]

Western Front Allies of WW1[12]

The Indian Army[1]Soldiers of the British Empire WW1[5]The French on the Western Front[1]ANZACS on the Western Front[10]US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918[4]Canadians on the Western Front[9]

Western Front - The beginning (1914)[10]

Mons 1914[12]Retreat to the Marne 1914[6]Battle of The Aisne 1914[6]

Western Front - Stalemate (1915)[13]

Neuve Chappelle 1915[11]Aubers Ridge 1915[7]Festubert 1915[7]Loos 1915[10]

Gallipoli 1915-16[9]Salonika Front WW1[2]Western Front - Counterattack (1916)[27]

Battle of the Somme 1916[28]

Delville Wood 1916[11]Fromelles 1916[9]Bapaume 1916[7]Flers - Courcelette 1916[6]

Verdun 1916[9]

Western Front - Attrition (1917)[29]

Hindenburg Line 1917[7]Arras 1917[13]

Vimy Ridge 1917[14]Bullecourt 1917[8]

Messines 1917[14]Third Battle of Ypres 1917[29]

Polygon Wood 1917[10]Passchendaele 1917[15]

Cambrai 1917[10]

Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)[14]

German Spring Offensive 1918[10]

Operation Michel 1918[7]Belleau Wood 1918[6]Battle of Lys & Op Blucher 1918[4]Villers-Bretonneux 1918[11]

Le Hamel 1918[10]The Last 100 Days 1918[11]

Battle of Amiens 1918[8]The Somme 1918[8]Meuse-Argonne 1918[6]St. Mihiel 1918[4]Sambre Crossing 1918[4]

Italian Front WW1[2]

Asiago Plateau 1916[1]Caporetto 1917[1]Vittorio Veneto 1918[1]

Middle East Front WW1[2]

Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1[2]

Naval Battles WW1[2]Other WW1 themes[5]

Air Power WW1[2]Shot at Dawn WW1[2]Women and war WW1[3]Logistics WW1[2]Medical WW1[4]WW1 Poetry literature and art[2]

Spanish Civil War 1936-39[2]

Siege of Toledo 1936[1]Madrid 1936[1]Jarama 1937[1]Guadalajara 1937[1]May Days & Barcelona 1937[1]Brunete 1937[1]The Ebro 1938[1]

Second World War 1939-45[53]

Occupation of Europe (1940)[18]

Norway Campaign 1940[4]Fall of France 1940[17]

Sedan 1940[2]Arras 1940[6]Dunkirk 1940[14]Battle of Calais 1940[6]

The Occupation of the Channel Islands WW2[1]Operation Sealion (Seelöwe) 1940[2]Battle of Britain 1940[6]

UK Home Front WW2[3]

London Blitz WW2[3]

Mediterranean theatre WW2[6]

German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941[3]Siege of Malta 1940-42[5]

Air War over Europe WW2[6]

Combined Bomber Offensive WW2[5]

Naval battles WW2[3]

Battle of the Atlantic WW2[3]Operation Berlin 1941[3]

WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied Europe[9]

Channel Islands raids 1942-3[1]Operation Chariot - St Nazaire 1942[5]Bruneval Raid 1942[6]Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942[7]Operation Frankton - Bordeaux 1942[2]

Resistance in Occupied Europe WW2[1]

Battle of Gilieres 1944 - Haute Savoie[1]French Resistance WW2[2]S.O.E. in WW2[2]

Italian Front WW2[10]

Operation Husky 1943 - Sicily[7]Ortona 1943[3]Operation Avalanche 1943 - Salerno[2]Monte Cassino 1944[8]Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio[5]Gustav Line 1944[5]Gothic Line 1944-5[5]

Liberation of Europe (1944)[32]Eastern Front WW2[10]

Kursk 1943[1]Estonia 1944[1]Krakow 1945[1]Battle of Halbe 1945[3]Fall of Berlin 1945[11]

Asia and Pacific Fronts WW2[1]

Singapore 1942[1]

Advance into Germany (1945)[5]

Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing[6]Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest[6]

Other WW2 themes[3]

Soldiers of the British Empire WW2[1]Women and war WW2[1]Life under Nazi Occupation WW2[1]Hitler's Atlantic Wall[2]Holocaust[1]

Korean War 1950-53[1]Vietnam War 1954-75[1]Oman 1963-75[1]Falklands War 1982[2]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

21st Century[1]

Afghanistan 2001-21[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 Ancient / Roman Roman Invasion of Britain Battle of Teutoberger Forest c.9CE...Middle Ages Viking battles Viking battles in Yorkshire Norman Conquest of England 1066 Fulford 1066 Hastings 1066 Stanford Bridge 1066 Battle of Lewes 1264 Edward I’s conquest of North Wales 1277-83 100 Years War 1337-1453 Crecy 1346 Agincourt 1415 British Civil Wars Wars of the Roses 1455-87 Towton 1461 Bosworth 1485 English Civil War 1642-1651 Lansdown 1643 Roundway 1643 Marston Moor 1644 Monmouth Rebellion 1685 Sedgemoor 1685 The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1756 Culloden 1746 18th Century War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 Blenheim 1704 Seven Years' War 1756-1763 Minden 1759 Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Austerlitz 1805 Aspern – Essling 1809 Peninsular War 1808-13 Talavera 1809 Fuentes de Onoro 1811 Almaraz 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo 1812 Badajoz 1812 Salamanca 1812 Vitoria 1813 Waterloo Campaign 1815 Ligny 1815 Quatre Bras 1815 Waterloo Wavre 1815 British Colonial Conflicts Anglo/Zulu War 1879 Isandlwana 1879 Rorke's Drift 1879 Siege of Eshowe 1879 Gingindlovu 1879 Hlobane 1879 Ulundi 1879 Boer War 1899-1902 20th Century First World War 1914-18 Western Front Allies of WW1 ANZACS on the Western Front US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Canadians on the Western Front Western Front - The beginning (1914)Mons 1914 Retreat to the Marne 1914 Battle of The Aisne 1914 Western Front - Stalemate (1915)Neuve Chappelle 1915 Aubers Ridge 1915 Festubert 1915 Loos 1915 Western Front - Counterattack (1916)Battle of the Somme 1916 Delville Wood 1916 Fromelles 1916 Bapaume 1916 Verdun 1916 Western Front - Attrition (1917)Hindenburg Line 1917 Arras 1917 Vimy Ridge 1917 Bullecourt 1917 Messines 1917 Third Battle of Ypres 1917 Polygon Wood 1917 Passchendaele 1917 Cambrai 1917 Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)German Spring Offensive 1918 Operation Michel 1918 Belleau Wood 1918 Battle of Lys & Op Blucher 1918 Villers-Bretonneux 1918 Le Hamel 1918 The Last 100 Days 1918 Battle of Amiens 1918 The Somme 1918 Meuse-Argonne 1918 St. Mihiel 1918 Sambre Crossing 1918 Second World War 1939-45 Occupation of Europe (1940)Fall of France 1940 Sedan 1940 Arras 1940 Dunkirk 1940 Battle of Calais 1940 Battle of Britain 1940 UK Home Front WW2 London Blitz WW2 Mediterranean theatre WW2 German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941 Air War over Europe WW2 Combined Bomber Offensive WW2 Naval battles WW2 Operation Berlin 1941 WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied Europe Bruneval Raid 1942 Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942 Operation Frankton - Bordeaux 1942 Italian Front WW2 Operation Husky 1943 - Sicily Ortona 1943 Monte Cassino 1944 Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio Gustav Line 1944 Gothic Line 1944-5 Liberation of Europe (1944)Op Overlord Preparations in UK 1943-4 D-Day - Op Overlord 1944 Normandy Campaign and breakout 1944 Hürtgen Forest 1944 Lorraine Campaign 1944 Op Market Garden 1944 - Arnhem Eindhoven Nijmegen Aachen 1944 Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-45 Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren 1944-5 Operation Infatuate 1944 - Antwerp Op Aintree 1944 - Battle of Overloon Operation Amherst 1944 - Netherlands Op Blockbuster 1944 - Canadian drive to Rhine Battle of the Bulge 1944-5 Band of Brothers 101 Airborne Eastern Front WW2 Battle of Halbe 1945 Fall of Berlin 1945 Advance into Germany (1945)Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest

Countries Austria Belgium Crete...Czech Republic Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands Scotland United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

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

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

Graeme Cooper

Accredited Guide Number: 7

Graeme has been battlefield guiding since 1995. He operates ‘Cooper’s Waterloo Tours’, a family run Essex based business specialising in tailored tours to the Napoleonic Campaign battlefields of the Peninsular War and Waterloo. A Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society (FINS), Graeme qualified as a Waterloo Campaign Guide with Les Guides 1815 in 1998.

Graeme’s interest in the Napoleonic Campaigns was sparked during his time as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst by his tutors, the late and renowned military historians and authors, Professor Richard Holmes and Dr David Chandler. Graeme’s ancestor John Cooper fought at Waterloo in the 7th Hussars. In WW2 Graeme’s father Johnny Cooper was one of David Stirling’s originals in ‘L’ Detachment SAS.

Graeme was the driving force behind the creation of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides in November 2002. Since his original idea, the Guild has grown to International status and has set the benchmark for many who have passed its quality validation programme. Graeme was the Guild Secretary until November 2009 when he became the first member to be elected to the Guild’s Roll of Honour for his services to the Guild and the craft.

In May 2006 he established Corporate Battlefields Ltd, a leadership training company for corporate management and has since delivered to senior global management teams from eBay, Boeing UK, London Fire Brigade, Lilly, Brother UK, HSBC, Parliamentarians, the NATO Secretary General and others on the battlefields of Waterloo, Salamanca, Isandlwana, Normandy D-Day Beaches and Naseby. In 2025 the company found a new home with a fellow Guild member.

Graeme is a member of the Battlefields Trust and Waterloo Association. He and his wife live in Essex. Graeme enjoys golf, photography, dog walking and chess.

His pictorial presentations and talks are all listed on SPEAKERNET

“Graeme Cooper is the master story-teller. You stand with him in a green field, but when he speaks you see a battlefield before you.” – Adam Holloway MP

Battles Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800 19th Century Napoleonic Wars...Austerlitz 1805 Aspern – Essling 1809 Peninsular War 1808-13 Rolica 1808 Vimiero 1808 Porto - Crossing of the Douro 1809 Talavera 1809 Bussaco 1810 Almeida 1810 Coa 1810 Lines of Tores Vedras 1810 Fuentes de Onoro 1811 Almaraz 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo 1812 Badajoz 1812 Salamanca 1812 Vitoria 1813 Waterloo Campaign 1815 Ligny 1815 Quatre Bras 1815 Waterloo Wavre 1815 20th Century First World War 1914-18 Second World War 1939-45 Norway Campaign 1940 Liberation of Europe (1944)D-Day - Op Overlord 1944

Countries Africa Austria Belgium...Czech Republic Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Northern Europe Norway Portugal Scotland South Africa Spain United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBattlefield StudiesBespoke Group...Clubs and SocietiesCollege GroupsCorporate ToursFamiliesLeadership & Management TrainingLong ToursMilitary & VeteranShort ToursSmall GroupsStaff RidesWebsite

Emailcooper@waterlootours.co.ukTel (mobile)+44 (0) 7968 984347Tel (land)+44 (0) 1277 890 470Websitewww.waterlootours.co.uk

Malcolm Jones

Accredited Guide Number: 45

Malcolm Jones BA (Hons)

Malcolm is a British Military Historian, who specializes in the campaigns and battles of Wellington in Spain during the Peninsular War. He is a member of the ‘Society for Army Historical Research’ and a Badged member of the Guild since 2009.

Malcolm has always been interested in History and the military, which developed from an early age. His main love and focus has always been the Second World War, the Indian Mutiny, and the British colonial army of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His passion for the Peninsular War campaigns and its Battlefields began some 35 years ago.

After serving in the Army, and obtaining his history degree, he worked in business management in Britain and the Middle East. Over the years he has travelled extensively throughout Portugal and Spain, much of it following in the footsteps of Wellington’s men. During this time, he fell in love with the Spanish landscape, history and culture.

Malcolm now lives in central Spain, close to many of the battlefield sites, which he has visited on many different occasions and therefore knows the areas he guides very well. He is an enthusiastic historian, who is happy to share his experience with anyone who is interested; be it Wellington’s Army, the local history, culture, food or wine.

As a Badged Member of the ‘Guild of Battlefield Guides’, Malcolm has led many Military Battlefield Studies over the last ten years and has experience of leading battlefield tours since 1993 in Germany, Poland, Crete and Spain. With a rich and knowledgeable background, you can be assured of an informative tour, presented in an enjoyable and interesting manner.

Battles 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War 1808-13...Talavera 1809 Fuentes de Onoro 1811 Almaraz 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo 1812 Badajoz 1812 Salamanca 1812 Vitoria 1813

Countries Crete Europe Gibraltar...Portugal Spain Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBespoke GroupClubs and Societies...FamiliesIndividualsMilitary & Veteran

Emailwellingtonspain@outlook.comTel (mobile)(0034) 664 392 392Tel (land)(0034) 927 313 809