About Battle Honours Limited

Battle Honours are the UK's leading company offering walking battlefield tours. With the ability and experience to arrange battlefield tours for groups of all sizes, our program for 2009 contains new battlefield tours to new destinations and new walks to old favourites ensuring there is something for every battlefield tour walker over the coming year. All battlefield tours will be led by at least one badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides, the bench mark in quality when choosing your battlefield tour. Lead guides Julian Whippy and Clive Harris are renowned for their unbounded enthusiasm, passion and vast knowledge of their subject. With their military and police backgrounds together, with 20 years of combined guiding experience you will be in safe hands whilst on your pilgrimage or battlefield tour.

Clive S Harris

Clive served in the Royal Signals and with Hertfordshire Constabulary before embarking on a career in military history in 1998. In addition to the publication of "Walking the London Blitz", " Wander through Wartime London” and "The Greater Game" he has contributed to Time Team, Time Watch, Blitz Spirit and CBS's Legacy of War, his specialist battlefield subjects are The Retreat of 1914, The Ypres Salient, 1918, The London Blitz and the Italian Campaign of 1943/44.

Clive is the holder of badge number 33 within the Guild of Battlefield Guides and has recently been elected onto the prestigious British Commission for Military History.

Clive is the holder of badge number 33 within the Guild of Battlefield Guides

Clive S Harris - Expert Battlefield Tour Guide

Julian Whippy

Julian leads a number of our bespoke groups and spends a lot of time in Normandy researching the beach and inland battles of 1944. He enjoys leading groups to uncover lost or seldom seen sites of battle from all wars. He has a military back ground having served with the Royal Anglian Regiment as a member of the Territorial Army. A published author, he is a badged member and validator within the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Julian lectures on Military history widely having recently done so in Whitehall for the Royal United Services Institute.

Julian is the holder of badge number 31 within the Guild of Battlefield Guides

Mike St Maur Sheil

Mike St Maur Sheil has been neither soldier nor historian but through his work as a photographer has become fascinated by the landscapes of battle.

After reading Geography at Oxford he started working in Northern Ireland in 1970 where he was the first photographer to be allowed to document the work of the Bomb Squad. His subsequent association with the renowned New York based "Black Star" picture agency led to work on films and a wide range of editorial and corporate clients in over 60 countries around the world. In 2002 he won a prestigious World Press Photo Award for his work on child trafficking in west Africa.

For the past three years he has been documenting the "Fields of Battle" along the Western Front: work described by Prof Richard Holmes as "one of the most important ventures currently under way on the Western front". It is this work which has led to him becoming a battlefield guide with an almost unrivalled knowledge of the terrain of the entire Western Front.

Mike St Maur Sheil

In 2007 he created the commemorative exhibitions for the battles of Messines Ridge and Passchendaele which have been displayed in Belgium and London. He has also recently completed an exhibition for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa to commemorate the forthcoming 90th anniversary of the Armistice. His first book was published in France in October 2008, through which his imagery is helping to change the way people view battlefields

Mike is the holder of badge number 38 within the Guild of Battlefield Guides

Their ability to clearly convey history in an enthralling and passionate manner will enable you to step back in time and experience an unrivalled battlefield tour experience.

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