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Christmas Lunch

UJC Union Jack Club, Sandell St, Lambeth, London

Shropshire Event

Staffordshire

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 […]

£30

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 […]

Golf Day

John O’Gaunts Golf Club Sutton Park, Sandy, Bedfordshire

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 […]

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 […]

Validation Event

Museum of Army Flying Middle Wallop, Stockbridge

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 […]

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 […]

Christmas Lunch

UJC Union Jack Club, Sandell St, Lambeth, London

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

Validation Event December 7th 2018

UJC Union Jack Club, Sandell St, Lambeth, London

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 […]

Guild Annual Weekend and AGM 2019

Mercure Hotel Leicester Granby Street, Leicester

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 […]

Validation Event 30th March 2019

Caythorpe 19 High Street

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”).

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 […]

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

13th Annual Golf Championships 2019 16th August 2019

John O’Gaunts Golf Club Sutton Park, Sandy, Bedfordshire

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’.    

£50

Validation Day

Household Cavalry Museum Archive Combermere Barracks, Windsor, Berkshire

  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!

Guild Recce, Berlin

Alexanderplatz, 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.

Guild Christmas Lunch

Union Jack Club Sandell Street, Lambeth, London

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).

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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), […]

Staffordshire Weekend, Lichfield.

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 […]

£20.00

Validation Day

Tally Ho Club Pershore Road, Birmingham

Want to progress towards Accredited Membership? Need to do a face-to-face assignment? Couldn't get to the Guild Annual Conference? Here's your chance! Here's an opportunity to advance along the path towards your Badge! You'll be able to attempt Assignment 1, Assignment 5 and/or Assignment 6. Send your request to the Validation Secretary, and put the […]

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Online Assignment 1 Validation Event

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event by a Guild Member who has chosen The Battle for Ouvrage La Ferte 16-19 May 1940 as his subject. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the accreditation programme but have not yet seen a live validation, and […]

Online Event – The Battlefields of the Western Front in the era of Covid-19

As Europe starts emerging from Covid-19 Lockdowns many of us are looking forward to returning to the battlefields of Belgium and France. But what can we expect? And what has life been like on the battlefields during our enforced absence? Well, Guild members Julie and David Thomson (owners of No56 B&B on the Somme) and […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be The Garwhal Brigade at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle - 10 March 1915. Further details about how to join the audience for this event will be published in the Guild Weekly Update email about a week before the event. Members […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be The 38th (Welsh) Division - Lloyd George's Welsh Army and the assault on Mametz Wood July 10th to 12th July 1916. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme […]

Accredited Guides’ Dinner – POSTPONED

Due to the Covid 19 restrictions in place and expected to be in place in August, the Accredited Guides Dinner has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a later date. Further details from Graeme Cooper in due course.

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Annual Golf Day – REARRANGED AS “VIRTUAL” TOURNAMENT

Courses local to Members

Unfortunately, owing to the Covid 19 restrictions  likely to be in place, the event has been rearranged as a virtual golf tournament as social distancing cannot be guaranteed at the John O'Gaunt course. The "Covid 19" tournament will take place on 14th August and will now be played by Members at their local courses with […]

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Recce – The Fall of Mercia, Repton, Derbyshire

Repton Repton Church, Repton

In 873 Mercia, the largest Anglo-Saxon kingdom, fell from history. This recce will walk the ground seeking evidence of battle, locating warriors burials and determining how the Vikings achieved victory. The recce will end, COVID measures permitting, with a pub lunch in Repton. To seize this opportunity to re-sharpen your guiding sword arm and renew […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be The Battle of Ortona, December 1943. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme but have not yet seen a live validation, and those who have yet to begin […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be Objective Hillman: 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment, D-Day and the race to Caen. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme but have not yet seen a live validation, […]

East Anglia Regional Event – WW2 Aviation History at Ridgewell Airfield, Essex

Ridgewell Airfield Oaker Hill, Ridgewell Road, Great Yeldham,, Halstead.

The Ridgewell Roam - A day out walking  in East Anglia. If you are an East Anglian based member of the GBG and you are desperate to get out and soak up some history, why not come along to Ridgewell Airfield in Essex.  Mike Peters and Paul Bingley have organised a great day out on […]

Thermopylae and Artemisium Recce – CANCELLED

Due to numbers, this recce has been cancelled this year. The recce would have covered the Four Battles which decided the fate of fledgling democracy in the Greco-Persian War of 480BC. The recce follows the route of the Persian invasion, beginning on the Island of Skiathos before crossing the Straits of Artemisium to Thermopylae. The […]

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Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be 3rd Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade at the Battle of Messines 1917. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme but have not yet seen a live validation, and […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be The Second Battle of Ramadi, Mesopotamia, 1917. All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme but have not yet seen a live validation, and those who have yet to […]

Assignment 1 Validation

This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be Counter-Stroke at Arras, 21 May 1940.  All Guild members are welcome to join the audience, particularly those who have been accepted on the Accreditation Programme but have not yet seen a live validation, and those who have yet to begin the […]

Assignment 1 Validation (postponed)

This Event has been postponed from 10 October; the new date has yet to be confirmed. This is an online Assignment 1 Validation Event. The Guild Member candidate’s presentation will be The Alabamas at Croix Rouge Farm. July 25-27 1918.

Portsmouth Weekend, 16-18 October 2020 (postponed)

A ‘traditional’ Guild weekend with a quiz, a wide range of subject matter (not just nautical, although Portsmouth is billed as "the home of the Royal Navy"!) and sites, and plenty of opportunity to socialise. Travel during the event will be self-drive. Some walking is involved, none of it strenuous! A number of themes and […]