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The 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.

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!

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 permit 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 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.

Some of our Accredited Guides have experience of researching military aspects of family history, and 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 US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918[1]American War of Independence[1]Wellington's campaigns[1]Post WWII[0]

Yugoslav Wars (1990s)[1]

Cornwall in the Civil War[1]Antiquity

Viking battles in Yorkshire[2]Roman Invasion of Britain[3]Roman Invasion of Germany[1]

Battle of Teutoberger Forest[2]

Middle Ages[9]

Edward I’s conquest of North Wales[2]Battle of Lewes[2]Bosworth[2]Agincourt[3]Towton[2]Crecy[2]Hastings Campaign[1]Norman Conquest of England[2]

Fulford[2]Stanford Bridge[2]Hastings[1]

The 100 Years War[5]

British Civil Wars[6]

Sedgemoor[2]The Boyne[1]Culloden[3]Owen Glendower's Revolt[1]Wars of the Roses[6]English Civil War[9]

Lansdown[1]Roundway[1]Marston Moor[2]London in the Civil War[1]

Monmouth Rebellion[3]The Jacobite Rebellions[4]

Marlborough's campaigns[3]

Blenheim[2]Minden[2]

Napoleonic Wars[17]British Colonial Conflicts[2]

Boer War[3]American War of Independence[4]Seven Years' War[3]

Battle of Minden[4]

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

Falklands War[2]First World War[43]Second World War[45]

Fall of Berlin[7]Operation Amherst[3]Ardennes[11]Hürtgen Forest[3]Battle of the Bulge[10]Bastogne[5]Band of Brothers[3]Operation Dragoon[1]Ortona[2]Lorraine Campaign[2]Aachen[2]Combined Bomber Offensive[3]Battle of Overloon[1]Fall of France[8]Sedan[1]Arras[5]Battle of Calais[5]UK Home Front[2]Operation Frankton[2]Monte Cassino[4]Cassino[9]German Airborne Invasion of Crete[1]The Great Patriotic War[1]

Eastern Front - Estonia[1]

Kursk[1]30 Corps[2]Operation Husky[3]Battle of Sicily[5]Dunkirk[11]Battle of Britain[3]Bruneval Raid[4]Dieppe[10]Operation Jubilee[4]Arnhem[22]Operation Market Garden[16]Eindhoven & Nijmegen[10]Operation Berlin[6]Operation Aintree[1]Gothic Line[4]Gustav Line[3]Battle of Halbe[3]Liberation of the Netherlands[8]London Blitz[3]Normandy Preparations in UK[5]D-Day[21]Operation Overlord[9]Normandy Landings[23]Normandy Campaign[9]Norway 1940 Campaign[3]Operation Sea Lion[1]The Siege of Malta[2]Operation Avalanche[1]Salerno[5]Operation Chariot[2]St Nazaire & Dieppe[4]Rhine Crossing[4]Operation Infatuate[2]Operation Blockbuster[3]Operation Veritable[5]Operation Plunder[3]Scheldt Estuary - Breskens Pocket & Walcheren[5]Operation Shingle[2]Battle of Anzio[6]Anzio[4]Reichswald Forest[3]Peenemunde[2]

Cold War[8]Spanish Civil War[2]Oman[1]

Ewan Carmichael

Accredited Guide Number: 84

Ewan’s particular interests are Leadership, the Realities of War and Close Combat, through the ages, but particularly the ‘horse and musket’ era. On tour, he believes in balancing depth of research with enjoyment.

He is a direct successor to Wellington’s McGrigor as Director General Army Medical Services. He set up and led the British Army’s Air Assault Medical Regiment and then commanded all of the Army’s Field Hospitals operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was awarded an MBE for Squadron leadership in the First Gulf War and CBE for his direction of the Army Medical Services (AMS), at a time when the AMS achieved its highest battle casualty survival rate in history (halving the death rate).

A graduate of the Army Staff College and member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, his MA was on whether it is possible to create a strategy which endures. A Fellow of one of the Medical Royal Colleges, he is also an Apothecary and Freeman of the City of London.

Gregarious rather than combative by nature, he was surprised to be elected as President of the Combined Services Martial Arts Society by its members, and even more pleasantly surprised to win the first Worldwide Open tournament for renaissance sword & buckler at Hanover in 2010.

Battles 7 Years American War of Independence Arnhem...Austerlitz Austerlitz Campaign Austro-Prussian War Battle of Minden Blenheim Bosworth British Civil Wars British Colonial Conflicts Culloden D-Day English Civil War Koniggratz London in the Civil War Marston Moor Middle Ages Minden Napoleon Normandy Landings Sedgemoor The 100 Years War The Boyne The Jacobite Rebellions Towton Wars of the Roses Waterloo Campaign

Countries Austria Belgium Canada...Czech Republic Eastern Europe England Europe France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Malta Netherlands North America Poland Portugal Scotland Slovakia Spain United Kingdom United States of America Wales Western Europe

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Emailewancarmichael@yahoo.com

Andy Johnson

Accredited Guide Number: 52

My interest in military history started many years ago and, by the age of 12, I KNEW that I was going to join the RAF. I served with the RAF for over 28 years, including 17 years on the Boeing Sentry AWACS, with operational flying in the Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

I left the RAF in 2009 to become a full-time Battlefield Guide, and have now completed 129 tours (it should have been a lot more but COVID-19 got in the way!).

I take groups to the Western Front and, having travelling widely in India, have a major interest in the story of the Indian Corps on the Western Front. I also lead Second World War tours and have been privileged to take veterans to Normandy and Monte Cassino. What an honour! I should have taken a group to Imphal in August 2020 to commemorate VJ Day but, sadly, this was cancelled due to COVID.

Having spent so long in the air environment, I also lead tours to sites related to the Great War in the air, the Combined Bomber Offensive and the German secret weapons programme. This naturally leads to the subject of National Socialist Germany and I have explored a number of aspects of Hitler’s Germany, from the concentration camp and forced labour systems through to the Final Solution. It is a difficult but important subject.

And Germany, of course, leads to an interest in Berlin. I never served in Berlin – but I am an old Cold Warrior!

I joined the Guild of Battlefield Guides in 2008 and completed validation in November 2011.

Battles Arnhem Battle of Amiens Battle of the Somme...D-Day Normandy Landings Operation Market Garden WWI Ypres

Countries Belgium Eastern Europe England...Europe France Netherlands Poland Scotland United Kingdom Wales Western Europe

Caters For Adult Coach GroupsIndividualsSchool Groups...Small Groups

Emailandyjohnson26@hotmail.co.ukTel.+44 7539 677 540Websiteandyjohnsonbattlefields.co.uk