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Shropshire Event
Shrewsbury Weekend Visit Shropshire with The Guild of Battlefield Guides including Validation sessions, dinner & quiz, battlefield tour of Shrewsbury, visit to the RAF Cosford Museum and more.. HIGHLIGHTS:- Shropshire Regimental Museum, Shrewsbury with John Cotterill - See the Captured United States Colours in a former Marches strongpoint. Weekend based in a moated Tudor Manor House, now a 4* Hotel - In 1588 the County Militia’s RV when the Armada Beacons were fired. But how many answered the call and…
Find out more »August 2018
Accredited Guides Annual Dinner
With the Guild's intent to promote the validation journey to ‘The Badge’ a formal Annual Dinner for ‘Badged Guides’ of the Guild is held on a chosen Friday in August. Accredited Guides of the Guild who attend rendezvous in a Pub or Inn not knowing where they are going to dine nor who will host their evening. Until 2017 the event has been held in London. In the past ‘Badged Guides have Dined at the follow establishments all of which…
Find out more »Golf Day
The Guild's Annual Golf Championship Every year on a Friday in August The Guild of Battlefield Guides hold their Annual Golf Championships at a Golf Course on or near to a battlefield. Guild members are encouraged to invite golfing guests. In the morning all members from the Golf Club concerned are invited to a presentation on a battlefield subject. After a light lunch the Championship is played in the Stapleford format. The Guild Champion and Runner up receive their trophy’s at the…
Find out more »September 2018
Amesbury 7-9 September 2018
A ‘traditional’ Guild weekend with a quiz, a wide variety of topics/sites and plenty of opportunity to socialise. Travel during the event will be self-drive. Some walking on rough tracks is involved, with one lung-busting hill well known to anyone who served at Bulford. A number of themes/subjects will be outlined for possible development into UK tours or preliminary to continental tours by Gareth Davies, Andy Johnson and Paul Oldfield. Friday 7 September Settle into accommodation (details to follow), assemble…
Find out more »Validation Event
Want to progress towards Accredited Membership? Need to do a face-to-face assignment? Can't get to a Guild Weekend? Available on 22 September 2018? Then here's your opportunity! Middle Wallop's a few miles from Andover, and a one-day Validation event at the Museum of Army Flying there on 22 September could be the chance for you to get Assignment 1, 5 or 6 under your belt. Six (out of eight) assignments attempted at the last one-day event (Thundersley, in September 2017)…
Find out more »October 2018
Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2018
The Battlefields Trust is pleased to announce that the 2018 Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Peter Gaunt, well known specialist in the mid –17th century, and author or editor of 15 books concerned with aspects of the civil war in Wales, England, and Britain as a whole. The lecture will be hosted by the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London on Saturday 13th October at 2.30pm and will last for one hour with half an hour for questions…
Find out more »December 2018
Christmas Lunch
Come and join us at our annual Christmas lunch. Meet old friends and make new ones, exchange battlefield stories and Guild gossip at this extremely popular social gathering. More details from Andy Thompson - info@eyewitnesstours.com
Find out more »Validation Event December 7th 2018
A Validation Event has been organised on December 7th 2018 at the Union Jack Club, Sandell St, Lambeth, London, SE1 8UJ It will take place between 1000 and 1200; there is a total of six slots available. Requests to attempt Assignments 1, 5 or 6 should be emailed to the Validation Secretary (valsec@gbg-international.com) by 7 November (as usual, "first come, first served").
Find out more »January 2019
Guild Annual Weekend and AGM 2019
The Guild Annual Weekend and AGM will take place January 18th - 20th 2019. The venue will be the Mercure Hotel Granby Street Leicester LE1 6ES The event will include opportunities for validation, guest speakers, the annual Guild dinner and the ever popular Guild quiz! The AGM will also take place on the afternoon of Saturday 19th. Full details of the event will be released shortly!
Find out more »March 2019
Validation Event 30th March 2019
A Validation Event has been organised on Saturday 30 March at Caythorpe Village Hall, 19 High St, Caythorpe, Grantham NG32 3DR, UK Requests to attempt Assignments 1, 5 or 6 should be emailed to the Validation Secretary (valsec@gbg-international.com) by 15 February 2019 (as usual, “first come, first served”).
Find out more »July 2019
Guild Recce – Redcoats in the Pyrenees: 26-30 July 2019
A Pyrenees Recce is scheduled for 26-30 July. This 5-day Recce visits the 1813-14 Peninsular War battlefields of the Pyrenees and follows the footsteps and actions of an army that had been built and nurtured by a great leader over the five preceding years. We visit the battlefield of Vitoria where Wellington achieved one of his greatest victories. We walk the land bridge at Sorauren to look at Foy’s demise then gain the heights of the Pass at Maya. We…
Find out more »August 2019
Badged Guides Dinner 9th August 2019
The Annual Badges Guides Dinner will be held on Friday 9th August 2019 at a location that will be disclosed on the day!! For further details contact Graeme Cooper. Badged Guides Dinner 2019 Poster
Find out more »13th Annual Golf Championships 2019 16th August 2019
Guild Golf Day Poster Every year The Guild of Battlefield Guides holds its Annual Golf Championships at the John O’Gaunt Golf Club. Prior to the 2019 Championship the Guild presentation will be ‘Trafalgar’.
Find out more »September 2019
Validation Day
Want to progress towards Accredited Membership? Need to do a face-to-face assignment? Can't get to a Guild Weekend? Here's your opportunity! You'll be able to attempt Assignment 1, Assignment 5 and/or Assignment 6. Send your request to the Validation Secretary and put the date in your diary now!
Find out more »October 2019
Guild Recce, Berlin
A five-day recce (Monday to Friday) of Berlin, including visits to Seelow, Potsdam and Gatow. There is an option on the Friday for additional visits to Sachsenhausen, Templin and a hunt round Soviet SA2 and SA3 sites north of Berlin.
Find out more »November 2019
December 2019
Guild Christmas Lunch
After a very positive response from members, we were able to increase the number of available places from 50 to 60. This event is now fully subscribed: if any places become available members will be notified via update emails. Contact Andy Thompson andy.ewt@gmail.com (please note this is his new email address).
Find out more »January 2020
Annual Conference and AGM 2020
Our Annual Conference and AGM weekend will be held in the Mercure Great Danes Hotel, Maidstone. The hotel is located just off Junction 8 of the M20. Our theme for the weekend will be the Battle of Britain and we plan to include the usual mix of activities - validation opportunities, Guild AGM (Saturday afternoon), Guild Awards Dinner, a quiz, bring-and-buy stall, and a range of speakers.
Find out more »March 2020
Staffordshire Weekend, Lichfield.
Friday evening 13th. to Sunday 15th. March, based around the cathedral city of LICHFIELD. Time for a weekend meeting with like- minded members and guides to recce what is available in the area. (Friends and family welcome). Based on a "book your own accommodation" basis either two nights or join on Saturday for one night. Meet Friday evening in the Kings Head old coaching inn where the Staffordshire Regiment was first raised. (The pub is now owned by the Staffs Regimental…
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