Bob Hilton

Top Flat,

11 Well Lane,

Woking,

SURREY.

GU21 4PL

Phone: (07780) 664431. Mobile

e-mail: bhilton@hotmail.co.uk

 

Introducing a highly motivated and very keen military enthusiast with experience of conducting battlefield tours from both World Wars.

 

A professional soldier with extensive experience world-wide for over twenty years, having worked in many different environments and terrain a thorough knowledge of the different techniques and tactics demanded of those places.

 

As at home walking in Flanders Fields as parachuting onto Drop Zone 'N' in Normandy!

 

I was a member of The Parachute Regiment from 1981 to 2003. Serving in an operational capacity, in the Falkland Islands, Northern Ireland (7 tours of duty), Belize (twice), Sierra Leone, Macedonia and Afghanistan. Trained in many varied and diverse environments, usually after carrying out a parachute drop, such as Germany, Canada, Italy, Botswana, Kenya, Egypt, Cyprus and the USA. Took part in several battlefield parachute drops and tours to commemorate actions at Bruneval and Normandy in France and Arnhem in Holland. Upon retirement from the Army I took up being a full time battlefield guide, specializing in Britain's Airborne Forces and its actions in World War Two.

 

Bob Hilton at Oosterbeek Cemetery, September 1997 In Kabul, January 2002 with Leslie McCreesh at the Oosterbeek Cemetery in September 2004

 

As well as operating as an independent tour guide I recommend the following Battlefield Tour Companies;

 

Anglia

Battlefield Tours Ltd.

 

Brick House Farm, Ongar Road, Margaret Roding, ESSEX. CM6 1QR.

Telephone: 01245 231991.

e-mail: info@angliabattlefields.co.uk

www.angliabattlefields.co.uk

 

This Company specialises in group tours, with dates to suit you.

 

Leger Holidays

Escorted tours with Specialist Guides.

 

Canklow Meadows, Rotherham, SOUTH YORKS. S60 2XR.

Telephone: 0845 458 4885.

battlefields.leger.co.uk/tours

 

This Company specialise in a wide variety of tours on set dates.