Tim Saunders

Biography

Author battlefield guide and full time military historian, Tim Saunders was Educated at Clayesmore School and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served as an officer in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment for thirty years and has a life long interest in military history. As an officer cadet, he undertook his first battlefield tour of Normandy on a bicycle at the age of eighteen, during leave from Sandhurst, where he was one of a generation of officers who studied under Professor Richard Holmes. Since then his service, including the Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Balkans, has provided him with the opportunity to visit many less well known battlefields around the world. Since leaving the Army  Tim has appeared on TV  in programmes as diverse as Channel 4's Time Team, Battlefield Detectives, the word programme Balderdash and Piffle' and most recently the Lost Evidence series for the History Channel. Tim is also an author with over 10 military history titles to his name.   As a battlefield guide Tim is an expert on World Wars 1 and 2 and has conducted tours at all levels from private, through schools to Amilitary units and Headquarters. Tim is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.   Tim is a director of Battlefield History TV and is it's Creative Director responible for all direction and editing.

Known For

100 Years War: Crecy 1346

as Presenter

Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge

as Presenter

The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo

as Director and Editor

The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War

as Presenter

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways

as Presenter

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches

as Presenter

The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812

as Presenter and Writer

Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach

as Presenter

The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1

as Presenter

Mons 1914

as Presenter and Director