About Us

Giles Guthrie

I have been guiding with Williamsomme Tours for the past 10 years. Working in partnership with Mike Williamson I have led hundreds of visitors on their journeys through the battlefields of Western Europe.  Now Mike has decided to retire I have taken over the reins and look forward to leading many, many more visitors on future tours.

As a history graduate with a BA in history and MA in museum studies, I have been lucky enough to have had a career in human history with twenty years? experience as a museum curator and collections manager, including for the Royal West Kent Regimental Museum.

This has given me the opportunity to develop a specialist understanding of how to research the many different regiments and battles of the First World War and has helped me acquire in-depth knowledge.

My personal interest is in the bringing to life the detailed experiences of individual soldiers and sharing these within the context of the Western Front Battlefields.

Working closely with guests, I specialise in personal research prior to the tour, thus creating bespoke visits to specific significant battle sites and monuments. In this way our tours reflect the needs and interests of individuals and enable everyone to commemorate and remember within a warm and informal environment.