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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!

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All American War of Independence[1]Post WWII[0]

Six Day War[1]Yom Kippur[1]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[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[2]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[6]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[1]Minden[1]

Napoleonic Wars[20]British Colonial Conflicts[3]

Boer War[2]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[3]

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[55]Second World War[59]

Holocaust[3]Fall of France[8]Fall of Berlin[6]Operation Amherst[1]Hürtgen Forest[3]Normandy Campaign[5]Aachen[1]Operation BLOCKBUSTER[1]Monte Cassino[1]Combined Bomber Offensive[1]Operation Frankton[1]Operation Cockleshell[1]Normandy Preparations in UK[5]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]Bastogne[6]Operation VERITABLE[6]Sicily[3]Anzio[3]30 Corps[1]Battle of Anzio[5]Ardennes[10]Arnhem[24]Arras[3]Auschwitz[2]Battle of Britain[3]Battle of the Bulge[12]Battle of Calais[3]Cassino[11]Commando Raids of Bruneval[2]D-Day[19]Dieppe[8]Dunkirk[11]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[11]Gothic Line[3]Gustav Line[1]Battle of Halbe[1]Liberation of Holland[9]Krakow[2]London Blitz[2]Normandy Landings[23]Norway 1940 Campaign[1]Operation Berlin[6]Operation Market Garden[15]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[3]Operation AVALANCHE[2]Operation CHARIOT[1]Operation HUSKY[2]Operation INFATUATE[2]Operation JUBILEE[3]Operation SHINGLE[2]Operation PLUNDER[4]Operation OVERLORD[6]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[12]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[1]

John Harris

Accredited Guide Number: 82

John has been interested in military history since childhood. He comes from an extended military family and his early hobbies – modelmaking, wargaming and re-enacting – all allowed him to pursue his interest.

His involvement in re-enacting has taken him to battlefields across the UK, western Europe and the USA, and he has spoken to audiences of varying types, numbering up to 10,000 in one instance, about all aspects of conflict.

After a full-time career in Royal Mail, John took early retirement in 2012. His role as a senior manager with commercial and financial responsibilities gave him a keen awareness of the importance of customer satisfaction and ideas of value for money, concepts that are a key part of his touring offerings.

He has a BA (with First-Class Honours) in War Studies, completed part-time at the University of Birmingham and then the University of Kent while he was working.

Battlefield tour guiding has long been an ambition and John joined the Guild in 2015. He undertook training on the theory and practise of all aspects of guiding – the tour management side as well as engaging audiences in historic locations. He is proud to be a member of the Guild and to have been awarded Badge Number 82 in June 2017. In progressing towards the Badge, John was delighted to receive the Guild’s David Chandler Award for work he did on sources relating to the engagements of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American War of Independence.

John is a freelance guide and a keen motorbike rider. He specialises in set and bespoke motorbike tours of First World War and Second World War sites, the former including Ypres and the Somme, the latter relating to the May 1940 campaign, Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He is equally happy to guide those who prefer to travel on more than two wheels.

As well as the World Wars, John has a keen interest in eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century warfare, particularly during the Seven Years’ War, American War of Independence and Waterloo campaigns.

Battles American War of Independence WWI 7 Years...WWII Napoleon Battle of the Somme Ardennes Battle of the Bulge D-Day Ypres Operation Market Garden

Countries United States of America Belgium Western Europe...Europe North America France Germany

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsIndividualsMotorbike Groups...School GroupsSmall Groups

Emailjohn@thebattleguide.comTel.+44 7580 210 440Websitewww.thebattleguide.com

Adam Williams

Accredited Guide Number: 56

I served with the Army Air Corps for 24 years as a Helicopter Pilot/Instructor and Examiner and was first introduced to Military History during this time. I come from a ‘Military Family’ with a Great Grandfather who fought in the Zulu War of 1879, a Grandfather that saw active service with the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 and a Father in the RAF.

I was first introduced to the Battlefield in 1984 on an Operational Tour to the Falkland Islands. Fortunately, there were many veterans of Op Corporate on this tour and much of my spare time was spent with them on the battlefield. It was during this tour that I developed an interest in Military History, but it would take a further 20 years before I started Battlefield Guiding.

Being a Pilot meant that I was fortunate enough to see the Battlefield from an aerial perspective. I have
since conducted tours from the air, ranging from the Somme to Normandy and even Iraq! After reading a book about 9 Parachute Battalion called ‘The Day the Devils Dropped In’, I found my interest being directed towards Normandy and the D Day Landings of WW2. I have led many tours of the Normandy Landing Beaches with a particular interest in 6th Airborne Division and the 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment.

I have a developing interest in the SAS/SOE Operations in WW2 and have also led tours of the SAS action in Oman in 1958/9 on Jebel Akhdar. I currently live in the Middle East where I continue to fly Helicopters.

Battles WWII Anglo/Zulu War Oman

Countries Asia Western Europe Middle East...Europe France

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBattlefield WalksBespoke Group...Cultural ToursClubs and SocietiesCollege GroupsCorporate ToursLong ToursSelf-drive ToursIndividualsShort ToursMilitary & VeteranMotorbike GroupsPilgrimage GroupsSchool GroupsSpecial Educational NeedsSmall GroupsYoung Offenders

Emailmradam.williams@virgin.netTel.+97 1561 771 085