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
American Civil WarAmerican War of IndependenceAnzioArnhemAusterlitzAusterlitz CampaignBastogneBattle of BritainBattle of SicilyBattle of the BulgeBritish Civil WarsBruneval RaidCombined Bomber OffensiveD-DayDunkirkEnglish Civil WarFall of BerlinFall of FranceFranco-Prussian WarGerman Airborne Invasion of CreteGothic LineGustav LineHastingsHastings CampaignHürtgen ForestLignyMilitary Heritage of the Suffolk CoastMonte CassinoNapoleonNorman Conquest of EnglandNormandy CampaignNorway 1940 CampaignOperation ChariotOperation HuskyOperation InfatuateOperation Market GardenOperation Sea LionOperation ShingleOperation VeritableQuatre BrasReichswald ForestRhine CrossingSalernoSedanThe 100 Years WarThe Jacobite RebellionsUS Operations on the Western Front 1917 - 1918US Soldiers on the Western Front 1917 - 1918War of the Austrian SuccessionWar of the Spanish SuccessionWars of the RosesWaterlooWaterloo CampaignWellington's campaignsWellington’s Peninsular battlesWellington’s Pyrenees battles
Countries
AustriaBelgiumCanadaCreteCzech RepublicDenmarkEnglandEstoniaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyLatviaLuxembourgNetherlandsNorth AfricaNorth AmericaNorwayNorwayPolandPortugalScotlandSpainUnited KingdomUnited States of AmericaWalesincl. Sicily
Caters For
Adult Coach GroupsFamiliesIndividuals