In the footsteps... is a family run company that concentrates on offering the personal touch that many of the larger tour operators are unable to achieve. We pride ourselves on giving our customers a package that is fantastic value and a battlefield tour experience that they will cherish forever.

Major Ian R Gumm

As a professional battlefield tour guide I regularly visit the countryside, towns and villages of Northwest Europe to discuss the battles that raged across the canvas that is the battlefield. As a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides I endeavour to maintain the high levels of good practice and standard of service commensurate with the Guild's ethos.

It is my aim to provide you with a battlefield tour that is a truly unique experience and will leave you with memories that last forever.

"Battlefield tours are my passion, they are what I love to do and I feel extremely privileged to be able to take people to the battlefields of Northwest Europe following in the footsteps of an ancestor or relative on a genealogy tour, retracing the steps of a military unit or formation on a bespoke tour, or guiding them around some of the most important historical sites that have shaped the world in which we live on a personalised tour."

I have led tours for over ten years and visited the battlefields at: Ypres - Waterloo - Agincout - the D-Day Beaches of Normandy - Passchendaele - the Somme - US Airborne sites of Operation Market Garden and the British Airborne at Arnhem - US Airborne and British Airborne sites of Normandy - Vimy Ridge - Messines Ridge - Aubers Ridge and Fromelles - Crecy - Cambrai ... and many more.