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Tim Saunders

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

Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
2016 • Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
2015 • Presenter
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
2015 • Presenter
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
2015 • Presenter & Director
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
2015 • Presenter
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
2015 • Presenter and Writer
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
2015 • Presenter
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
2015 • Presenter

Full filmography

The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
2015 • Presenter and Writer
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Le Cateau
2014 • Presenter and Director
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Mons 1914
2014 • Presenter and Director
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Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
2014 • Presenter and Director
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Salamanca
2012 • Presenter
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The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
2009 • Himself - Presenter and Writer
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Unknown year • Director and Presenter
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The Battle of Naseby 1645
Unknown year • Presenter
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The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
Unknown year • Presenter
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Tim Saunders – Biography, Known For & Filmography