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Lt Col Andrew Duff
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Duff
Andrew Duff was educated at Christ Church Cathedral Choir School and Dauntseys School. It was whilst he was at school and visiting his parents in Cyprus and India that his interest in history generally, and military history in particular, were kindled. He was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Royal Anglian Regiment. He served with 3 Royal Anglian (the successor regiment to the Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiments) in UK, Germany, Cyprus, N Ireland and Belize, commanding companies on operational tours in Cyprus, N Ireland and Belize. He also carried out regimental tours of duty as Adjutant/Training Officer of the Bermuda Regiment and as Training Major of 5 Royal Anglian. As a staff officer he did tours in Military Operations, Intelligence and Security, Exercise Planning and finished his regular service as the officer responsible for the Artic Warfare Training and Operations of the UK Element of the Allied Mobile Force.
On leaving the Regular Army he settled in Wiltshire, where he and his wife set up a horticultural business, and he joined the Territorial Army (TA) serving with HQ 5 Airborne Bde and then HQ 16 Air Assault Bde.
Since leaving the TA he has been able to indulge his life long interest in Military History by becoming a Battlefield Tour Guide with Anglia Battlefield Tours and has conducted successful tours for schools, military groups and adults. His experience as an infantry soldier allows him to explain the battlefield from the view of the protagonists and thus combine the personal, professional and historical stories to ring the battlefield 'alive'. He has recently set up his own company, Bridgeman & Kent Battlefield Tours, catering to the small group market. This has allowed him to indulge his special interest, of researching and conducting 'one off' tours following the progress of an individual, a regiment or division in a campaign. An example of a recent project is a tour that followed 'The Big Red One' the 1st US Infantry Division from Omaha Beach to the Rhine.
Andrew is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides and if you wish to contact him about a tour his email is: info@bkbattlefieldtours.co.uk
Andrew specialises in:
The 100 years War
The Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign
World War 1, the Western Front and in particular the US Involvement.
World War 2, Western Europe and Italy.
Websites:
www.bkbattlefieldtours.com
www.usbattlefieldtours.co.uk
www.bridgeman-kentbattlefieldtours.com
Lt Col Andrew Duff's activity
- 28 Oct 2007
Lt Col Andrew Duff reviewed Where the Battle of Salamanca was fought in Salamanca, Spain
On the 22nd of July 1812 at Salamanca, 4 years after Wellington had taken charge of the British Forces in the Peninsula, he felt he was in the position to launch an all out attack on the main French Army in Spain. The result was a devastating victory tha…"
