I am a historian and have led battlefield tours for over thirty years.After leaving the British Army as a Major.I worked for the travel arm of the Royal British Legion as guide and operations manager.  I have led and planned hundreds of tours around the world.I hold badge no 8 of the Guild of Battlefield Guides and helped set up and train the guiodes for Liberation Route Europe.I served as chairman of the Battlefields Trust and involved in preservation, interpretation and presentation of UK battlefields from Ceaser to the Cold War. I was part of the project team that rediscovered the Bosworth battlefield where King Richard III died.  I wrote three chapters of the British Army Guide to the Battlefields of the Western Front and was a historian for the British Army Centenary Staff Rides organised for the Chief of the General Staff.I am a member British Commission for Military History. Like most Britons I have family connections to the Western Front.One great uncle is buried on the Aisne and my grand parents met after his grandfather was recuperating after evacuation from the Somme. He is writing the official history of the Normandy campaign for the Royal Regiment of Artillery and have battlefield guides to Artillery on the D Day beaches and the First Day of the Somme in publication. My service is unique as I have taughtcourses on the Battle of Waterloo for CityLit one of London's mostprestigious colleges