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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.

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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[1]

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[51]Second World War[55]

Holocaust[3]Fall of France[7]Fall of Berlin[4]Operation Amherst[1]Hürtgen Forest[3]Normandy Campaign[3]Aachen[1]Operation BLOCKBUSTER[1]Operation Frankton[1]Operation Cockleshell[1]Normandy Preparations in UK[4]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[21]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[4]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]

Ian Gumm

Accredited Guide Number: 62

Ian Gumm is the founder and CEO of In The Footsteps, a leading independent battlefield tour operator, as well as a full-time battlefield historian and guide. He has led tours since 1998 and has visited the battlefield of the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, the First World War, the Second World War … and much more.

“Touring the battlefield is my passion, it is what I love to do and I feel extremely privileged to be able to escort people around the battlefields of the world visiting some of the most important historical sites that have shaped the world in which we live.”

Ian served in the British Army as a Reservist for thirty-six years during which time he commanded B (Rorke’s Drift) Company of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Wales; commanded the Regimental Contingent at the affiliation parade with 121 South African Infantry Battalion (a Zulu Battalion) in South Africa; was the officer responsible for training all junior and potential officers in Wales and was the staff officer responsible for the First World War Centenary Commemorations for Wales.

His experience, gained both on the battlefield and with the British Army, allows him to add a soldier’s perspective and paint the picture of a battle on the canvas of the countryside. This enhances your tour experience, as Ian is not only able to impart an understanding of the history, but also a feel for the men who fought the battle and the ground over which they were fought.

“So whether you are ‘following in the footsteps’ of an ancestor or relative on a genealogy tour; ‘following in the footsteps of heroes’ on a more general tour or retracing the steps of a military unit or formation on a battlefield study or staff ride you can be sure that Ian will deliver an experience that will leave you with memories that last a lifetime.”

As an Accredited Member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, Ian endeavours to maintain the high standards, both in terms of service and good practice, that are commensurate with the Guild’s ethos. In addition to being an Accredited Member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, Ian is a member of the Western Front Association, the Last Post Association and a registered tour guide with the European Tour Operators Association.

As well as leading battlefield tours Ian delivers interesting and informative military history talks and presentations to professional organisations, businesses, clubs, societies and other groups, small or large.

Battles Holocaust Fall of France Poitiers...Fall of Berlin Edward I’s conquest of North Wales US Operations on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 Battle of Lewes Fulford Sluys Talavera Charleroi Isandlwana Vimy Ridge Middle Ages Stanford Bridge Poitiers Almaraz Rorke's Drift Villers-Bretonneux Bosworth WWI Agincourt British Civil Wars Hastings Fuentes de Onoro Eshowe Gallipoli WWII Waterloo Anglo/Zulu War Ciudad Rodrigo Gingindlovu Towton Napoleon Arras Ligny Crecy Badajoz Hlobane Bastogne Aubers Ridge British Colonial Conflicts Hastings Campaign Salamanca Ulundi Operation VERITABLE Bapaume Quatre Bras Norman Conquest of England Vittoria Sicily Battle of The Aisne Wavre The 100 Years War Anzio Battle of Lys & Op Blucher Waterloo Campaign Battle of the Somme Wellington’s Peninsular battles Battle of Amiens Bullecourt Battle of Anzio The War of the Seventh Coalition Cambrai Ardennes Dellville Wood Arnhem Festubert Arras Fromelles Auschwitz Hindenburg Line Battle of the Bulge Le Hamel Loos Cassino Ludendorff Offensives Messines D-Day Meuse-Argonne Mons Dieppe Neuve Chappelle Dunkirk Operation Michel Eindhoven & Nijmegen Passchendaele Polygon Wood Retreat to the Marne Sambre Crossing Liberation of Holland Verdun Krakow Ypres Normandy Landings Vimy Operation Berlin Operation Market Garden Operation AVALANCHE Operation HUSKY Operation INFATUATE Operation JUBILEE Operation SHINGLE Operation PLUNDER Operation OVERLORD Reichswald Forest Rhine Crossing Salerno Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren

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Ian Gumm

Accredited Guide Number: 62