Tim Pritchard-Barrett
Accredited Guide Number: 71
Advance Battlefield Tours mission Statement is: To create and deliver – private, corporate & school tours which will entertain, educate, inform, teach, to even test individuals or groups of any size, tailored to any level of complexity, with any style of accommodation, over any length of time.
Our tours are delivered with care, great flexibility, knowledge, clarity, understanding, humour & unbridled enthusiasm for client needs & subject matter! Therefore we want you to “Smell that black powder & taste the cordite! “
Tim followed his family tradition and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1974, where he served in every theatre upon which the regiment partook for nine years.
He has served for a total of 29 years. After the “regular” army Tim continued with the Territorial Army; – (similar to the US National Guard), in The Queens Own Yeomanry (A cavalry regiment in the role of deep penetration, armoured reconnaissance) up to the appointment of Squadron Leader but later as a staff officer, second in command and training officer for other regiments. His experiences in the military have included both operational command and staff appointments.
He been a member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides since 2007, and holds Badge number 71. Widely experienced and well read, as a professional Battlefield Guide, Tim has led many dozens of tours across Western, Southern and Central Europe; (the majority, small business and personal tours) for 18 years.
New recent additions are the mystical secret Suffolk coast’s military heritage and the vast array of USAAF 8th Air Force Bases across East Anglia with the “Masters of the Air” Series having been on Apple TV.
All these tours have consistently reviewed Politics, Strategic aims, Operational Requirements, Ego, Command, Control, Intelligence (Gathering, Interpretation, Analysis & Dissemination), Leadership, Morale, Training, Weaponry, Logistics, Ground and Conditions. Most of all, to ensure a clarity of message and understanding to the tour participants, no matter their previous knowledge.
Always keen to research something new, Tim welcomes the challenge of conducting new tours, for forgotten wars, to unsung places.
Battles
Middle AgesNorman Conquest of England 1066Hastings 1066100 Years War 1337-1453British Civil WarsWars of the Roses 1455-87English Civil War 1642-1651The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-175618th CenturyWar of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714War of the Austrian Succession 1741-1748American War of Independence 1775-178319th CenturyNapoleonic WarsAusterlitz 1805Peninsular War 1808-13Waterloo Campaign 1815Ligny 1815Quatre Bras 1815WaterlooAmerican Civil War 1861-65Franco-Prussian War 1870-7120th CenturyFirst World War 1914-18Western Front Allies of WW1US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918Second World War 1939-45Occupation of Europe (1940)Norway Campaign 1940Fall of France 1940Sedan 1940Dunkirk 1940Operation Sealion (Seelöwe) 1940Battle of Britain 1940Mediterranean theatre WW2German Airborne Invasion of Crete 1941Air War over Europe WW2Combined Bomber Offensive WW2WW2 Commando and other Raids in Occupied EuropeOperation Chariot - St Nazaire 1942Bruneval Raid 1942Italian Front WW2Operation Husky 1943 - SicilyMonte Cassino 1944Operation Shingle 1944 - AnzioGustav Line 1944Gothic Line 1944-5Liberation of Europe (1944)D-Day - Op Overlord 1944Normandy Campaign and breakout 1944Hürtgen Forest 1944Op Market Garden 1944 - Arnhem Eindhoven NijmegenOperation Infatuate 1944 - AntwerpBattle of the Bulge 1944-5Eastern Front WW2Fall of Berlin 1945Op Veritable 1945 - Reichswald Forest
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