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[4]Poitiers 1356[1]Agincourt 1415[6]

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[2]Siege of Gibraltar 1779-83[2]

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802[0]

Passage of the Alps and Marengo 1800[2]

19th Century[29]

Napoleonic Wars[22]Crimean War 1853-56[2]American Civil War 1861-65[5]

Bull Run 1861[2]Antietam 1862[3]Gettysburg 1863[1]Monocacy 1864[1]

British Colonial Conflicts[7]

Anglo/Zulu War 1879[5]

Isandlwana 1879[2]Rorke's Drift 1879[3]Siege of Eshowe 1879[2]Gingindlovu 1879[2]Hlobane 1879[2]Ulundi 1879[2]

Boer War 1899-1902[3]

Austro-Prussian War 1866[1]

Koniggratz 1866[1]

Franco-Prussian War 1870-71[2]

20th Century[52]

First World War 1914-18[45]

Western Front Allies of WW1[12]

The Indian Army[1]Soldiers of the British Empire WW1[6]The French on the Western Front[2]ANZACS on the Western Front[12]US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918[5]Canadians on the Western Front[10]

Western Front - The beginning (1914)[13]

Mons 1914[14]Retreat to the Marne 1914[7]Battle of The Aisne 1914[7]

Western Front - Stalemate (1915)[15]

Neuve Chappelle 1915[12]Aubers Ridge 1915[8]Festubert 1915[8]Loos 1915[11]

Gallipoli 1915-16[11]Salonika Front WW1[4]Western Front - Counterattack (1916)[29]

Battle of the Somme 1916[30]

Delville Wood 1916[14]Fromelles 1916[10]Bapaume 1916[8]Flers - Courcelette 1916[7]

Verdun 1916[10]

Western Front - Attrition (1917)[31]

Hindenburg Line 1917[8]Arras 1917[14]

Vimy Ridge 1917[15]Bullecourt 1917[9]

Messines 1917[17]Third Battle of Ypres 1917[31]

Polygon Wood 1917[12]Passchendaele 1917[17]

Cambrai 1917[11]

Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)[16]

German Spring Offensive 1918[12]

Operation Michel 1918[9]Belleau Wood 1918[7]Battle of Lys & Op Blucher 1918[7]Villers-Bretonneux 1918[12]

Le Hamel 1918[11]The Last 100 Days 1918[12]

Battle of Amiens 1918[9]The Somme 1918[9]Meuse-Argonne 1918[7]St. Mihiel 1918[5]Sambre Crossing 1918[5]

Italian Front WW1[3]

Asiago Plateau 1916[2]Caporetto 1917[2]Vittorio Veneto 1918[2]

Middle East Front WW1[2]

Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1[3]

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

Air Power WW1[2]Shot at Dawn WW1[3]Women and war WW1[3]Logistics WW1[3]Medical WW1[5]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[52]

Occupation of Europe (1940)[19]

Norway Campaign 1940[4]Fall of France 1940[18]

Sedan 1940[3]Arras 1940[7]Dunkirk 1940[15]Battle of Calais 1940[7]

The Occupation of the Channel Islands WW2[1]Operation Sealion (Seelöwe) 1940[3]Battle of Britain 1940[7]

UK Home Front WW2[3]

London Blitz WW2[3]

North Africa WW2[0]

Operation Torch and Tunisia 1942[1]

Mediterranean theatre WW2[6]

German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941[5]Siege of Malta 1940-42[7]

Air War over Europe WW2[7]

Combined Bomber Offensive WW2[6]

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[8]Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 1942[8]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[9]Ortona 1943[4]Operation Avalanche 1943 - Salerno[4]Monte Cassino 1944[11]Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio[7]Gustav Line 1944[7]Gothic Line 1944-5[7]

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

Stalingrad (Volgograd) 1942-3[1]Kursk 1943[1]Estonia 1944[2]Krakow 1945[1]Battle of Halbe 1945[3]Fall of Berlin 1945[13]

Asia and Pacific Fronts WW2[1]

Singapore 1942[2]

Advance into Germany (1945)[5]

Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing[8]Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest[7]

Other WW2 themes[3]

Soldiers of the British Empire WW2[2]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[2]Oman 1963-75[1]Falklands War 1982[2]Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[2]

21st Century[1]

Afghanistan 2001-21[1]Second Gulf War 2003[1]

Clive Harris

Accredited Guide Number: 39

Raised in Hertfordshire, Clive spent much of his childhood speaking to veterans of the Great War who encouraged him to join the Army. Clive served in the Royal Signals in BAOR, Cyprus and France before taking up a permanent staff post at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. On leaving the army he joined his local Constabulary as a specialist communications officer and control room manager, in his spare time he became a trustee of the Western Front Association and joined the Committee of the Gallipoli Association.

In 1998 he began working as a speaker, writer, researcher and battlefield guide and since then has guided groups the length of the Western Front, Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine & Italy for the Great War, alongside Normandy, Arnhem, The Italian Campaign and the London Blitz for the 1939/45 war.

Clive, who completed an MA in Great War Studies is a member of the British Commission for Military History and a co-owner of both Battle Honours & Staffride Ltd, leading specialist battlefield tour operators.

He has written three books, “Walking the London Blitz”, “A Wander Through Wartime
London” & “The Greater Game – Sportsman who Fell in the Great war” alongside
contributing to a number of edited works on military history.

Mike Peters

Accredited Guide Number: 19

Mike is a freelance Battlefield Guide and Historian with over 30 years of military service in the Army Air Corps. Commissioned from the ranks, he has served on numerous operational tours on the ground and in the air, in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. Experience that informs his presentation of events on the battlefields that he leads tours to. Mike’s intent is always to give the battlefield visitor a 360 degree view of their chosen battle, while also presenting the battle from the soldier’s perspective – from the inside out.

Mike has been a Battlefield Guide since his early twenties, during this time he has had the good fortune to lead battlefield tours all over the world, to destinations ranging from from Berlin to Beersheba. Equally at home with a military or civilian audience he has experience leading tours and studies focused on medieval battles, the campaigns of Napoleon, the Great War, and the Second World War. Mike regularly works with Australian, American and British groups. His aviation background enables him to lead specialist tours focused on Airborne forces or the Air War of any period. Most recently he has worked with the US National WWII Museum, leading their Masters of the Air Tour around East Anglia and Southern England.

Author of several books on the Glider Pilot Regiment and the US Eighth Air Force Mike is a regular speaker at the National Army Museum in London, and the UK Army Flying Museum. He co-hosts ‘The Mighty Eighth Podcast’.

Battles Crecy 1346 Agincourt 1415 Salonika Front WW1...ANZACS on the Western Front Western Front - The beginning (1914)Western Front - Stalemate (1915)Gallipoli 1915-16 Western Front - Counterattack (1916)Western Front - Attrition (1917)Western Front - Defeat and Victory (1918)Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1 Battle of Britain 1940 German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941 Siege of Malta 1940-42 Air War over Europe WW2 Combined Bomber Offensive WW2 Operation Husky 1943 - Sicily Operation Avalanche 1943 - Salerno Monte Cassino 1944 Operation Shingle 1944 - Anzio Gustav Line 1944 Gothic Line 1944-5 D-Day - Op Overlord 1944 Normandy Campaign and breakout 1944 Op Market Garden 1944 - Arnhem Eindhoven Nijmegen Arnhem 1944 Eindhoven 1944 Nijmegen 1944 Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren 1944-5 Battle of the Bulge 1944-5 Estonia 1944 Fall of Berlin 1945 Op Plunder 1945 - Rhine Crossing

Countries Afghanistan Austria Belgium...Bosnia Canada Crete Croatia Cyprus Denmark Estonia France Germany Gibraltar Greece Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Portugal Republic of North Macedonia Russia Sicily Spain Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBattlefield StudiesBattlefield Walks...Bespoke GroupClubs and SocietiesCollege GroupsCorporate ToursCruise shipCultural ToursEvening PresentationsFamiliesFilm workGroup TypesIndividualsLeadership & Management TrainingLong ToursManagement DevelopmentMilitary & VeteranPilgrimage GroupsShort ToursSmall GroupsSpecial Educational NeedsStaff RidesYoung Offenders

Emailchalkypeters@gmail.comTel.+44 7837 232256

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 19th Century British Colonial Conflicts Anglo/Zulu War 1879...20th Century Second World War 1939-45 Post WWII Oman 1963-75

Countries Asia Europe France...Middle East Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsBattlefield WalksBespoke Group...Clubs and SocietiesCollege GroupsCorporate ToursCultural ToursIndividualsLong ToursMilitary & VeteranMotorbike GroupsPilgrimage GroupsSchool GroupsSelf-drive or guided toursShort ToursSmall GroupsSpecial Educational NeedsYoung Offenders

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