Tour Guides

Gillian Halcrow

Gillian Halcrow is the daughter of E.H. van Maurik, Agent Paterson SOE, known as ‘Van’.

Roger Steward

Born in the UK, I have lived and worked as a battlefield historian and author in the Ypres area since 2010.

Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan has been living and working as a tour guide in France for almost 10 years.

Rick Peacock-Edwards

Rick spent over 30 years in the RAF and retired as an Air Commodore in 1999.

Julian Humphrys

Julian spent 12 years at Chelsea’s National Army Museum, setting up special exhibitions, liaising with the British Army and acting as spokesman to the media on all matters of military history.

Andrew White

Andrew is a retired RAF wing commander; who served in the Intelligence Branch for 26 years until 2011, seeing operational service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq. Since retiring from the RAF

Warwick is a qualified Conflict and Battlefield Archaeologist, military historian, lecturer, battlefield guide and author with a major research interest in Battlefield Preservation and 17th century Military History,

Lt-General Jonathon Riley.

A former Commanding Officer of 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers, General Officer Commanding British Forces in both Sierra Leone and Iraq and Deputy Commander of NATO forces.

John Sadler

John Sadler is a British historian specialising in the Roman England. Sadler is a regular contributor to military and historical journals.

Patrick Mercer OBE

Patrick Mercer, has an obsession with military history, Having read Modern History at Oxford, he served in the Army for 25 years.

Brian Shaw

Brian Shaw is an Ex-Warrant Officer in the Parachute Regiment who has been leading battlefield tours for the past twenty years.

Steve Smith

Steve qualified as a Guild of Battlefield Guide in 2004, having left the RAF in 2003, where he served for 18 years as an RAF Police NCO.

Dan Hill

Dan is incredibly proud to have worked for over a decade as both a professional military historian and battlefield guide across Europe.