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Colonel Iain Standen
Colonel Iain Standen is an Army officer with over 22 years service. He has served in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Cyprus, as well as on operational deployments to Northern Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Rwanda and Bosnia. He is a graduate of the Army Staff College; has commanded at troop, squadron and unit level and has served in a range of staff appointments. This extensive military experience allows him to provide a wide–ranging soldier's insight on his battlefield tours.
His interest in military history stretches back to his childhood and he visited his first battlefield, Bosworth Field, almost 30 years ago. Since then he has toured battlefields in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the United States, covering battles and campaigns from the Seven Years War to the Second World War. Whilst maintaining a broad interest in a range of campaigns, the American Civil War remains his favourite era. He began leading battlefield tours with the troops under his command in 1987 and has continued to lead military tours during his career.
He began working commercially for Anglia Battlefield Tours in 2001 and has guided tours for them on the battlefields of the two world wars in France and Belgium.
He is a member of the American Civil War Roundtable (United Kingdom) and lectures on American Civil War subjects. He maintains a professional interest in military affairs, and military history through membership of The Battlefields Trust and The Western Front Association. He is also a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.
Please feel free to contact me (Standen-Battleguide@hotmail.co.uk) should you require a guide or for further information on battlefield tours.
My areas of expertise are:
• American Civil War
• World War I: Ypres, Somme, Verdun
• Seven Years War: Minden
Colonel Iain Standen's activity
- 04 Oct 2007
- 02 Oct 2007
Colonel Iain Standen reviewed The Ypres Salient in Belgium
The last few years has seen a resurgence of interest in the First World War and a massive increase in the number of visitors to the battlefields of the Western Front. Some of the most visited battlefields are those of the Ypres Salient in Northern Belgi…"
Colonel Iain Standen reviewed Battlefield of Antietam in Appalachian States, United States
In Autumn 1862, having won a momentous victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run, General Robert E Lee launched an invasion of the Northern States with two principal objectives in mind. The first was to plunder the farms of Maryland and Pennsylvania, in …"
- 26 Sep 2007
Colonel Iain Standen reviewed The First and Second Battles of Bull Run in Centreville, United States
For the battlefield enthusiast one of the greatest sources of battlefields, outside Northern Europe, is the United States of America. Here the country’s short, but at times, bloody military history has been well preserved and offers many opportunities f…"
- 25 Sep 2007
Colonel Iain Standen reviewed Battlefield of Verdun in Alsace-Lorraine, France
When one thinks of holidays in France it is usually the beaches of the South or the ski resorts of the Alps that spring to mind. However, for the traveller in search of more intellectual that physical stimulation, the North of France has much to offer w…"
- 15 Aug 2007
Colonel Iain Standen reviewed The Gettysburg Battlefield in US East Coast, United States
Without doubt one of the finest battlefield experiences in the world is to be had at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, the site of one of, if not the, decisive battle of the American Civil War. In June 1863 Robert E Lee, the commander of the Confederate Ar…"
