Simon Burgess

Retired Army Officer, RYA Yachtmaster (Offshore), RYA Cruising Instructor, Accredited Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides (badge no 108).

[John Cotterill @CotterillWFR]

@GuildofBG Bomber County day in Lincolnshire 13 June attended by 16 members. RAF Metheringham, Coningsby churchyard and Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre guided by @SimonSfb22, Andy Johnson and Chris Finn. Expertise delivered with enthusiasm and audience engaged throughout

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

Nice view from my room at the RNLI College in Poole.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@GuildofBG Bomber Command recce. Visits to Metheringham, Coningsby and East Kirkby.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@Kormin_ @SeaSpitfires Typically the time of high or low tide on any particular day will be about 50 minutes later than the day before. That’s pretty standard in most places.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@britishmemorial Will do

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@TCaptain2022 @britishmemorial Or what about Maj Lennox-Boyd, OC of the Pathfinders who fell to his death from an aircraft on the run in to the DZ. They were due to drop at 0016. He’s buried in Ranville.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@TCaptain2022 @britishmemorial Agreed. That’s what Mark Worthington the curator at the Memorial Pegasus thinks. Everett’s date of death is wrong on the Normandy Memorial.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

@StephenGrove19 @SeaSpitfires Canadian infantry officers loaned to the British Army.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

A bit of light reading. Getting ready for the @GuildofBG Bomber Command recce in June.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

Nice to be back on the Somme for a recce for a forthcoming battlefield tour.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

Great morning out on Weymouth Lifeboat on a navigation training exercise.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

A bit of light reading! Some great new books published over the D Day anniversary.

[Simon Burgess @SimonSfb22]

Just finished a great few days running the @GuildofBG recce to Normandy. 3 days and no beaches. Op EPSOM, GOODWOOD, TOTALISE and BLUECOAT. Thanks to all who helped.

[IGBG @GuildofBG]

Latest successful battlefield recce for members of the Guild of Battlefield Guides was to Normandy. Very useful CPD for our members. Thanks to all who attended and to those who ran the recce

[The Battlefield Explorer @battlefieldexpl]

Today we spent looking at Operation Bluecoat, we visited many locations which all have excellent memorials such as this one. The 11th Armoured Division memorial just north of Le Bas Perrier. Have been in Normandy for 4 days now, back home tomorrow and haven't seen any beaches.

[Simon Massey @SimonMassey123]

An amazing day at the Normandy @GuildofBG Recce looking at particularly Operations Epsom and Goodwood. You cannot beat walking the ground as today's 'Stands' have been brought vividly to life by some Amazing Battlefield Guides. Many thanks to everyone who has made it possible.

[Battle Honours Tours @bhltours]

Out tour today studied the Normandy breakout through Goodwood to Totalize and how alongside lessons learnt, the August 1918 lessons were remembered.

[Battle Honours Tours @bhltours]

We spent the afternoon looking at logistics and sustaining the Normandy Campaign but comparing and contrasting the British and US experiences

[Battle Honours Tours @bhltours]

A morning studying domain integration at Dieppe before heading to Bruneval and the successful raid on the Würzburg Radar station in 1942 #WW2