Tim Saunders
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Tim Saunders
Biography
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
Acting
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
as Director and Presenter
The Battle of Naseby 1645
as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery
as Presenter
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
as Director and Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
as Presenter
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
as Presenter
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
as Director and Editor
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?
as Presenter
(2016)
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
as Presenter
(2015)
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
as Presenter & Director
(2015)
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
as Presenter
(2015)
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
as Presenter
(2015)
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
as Presenter
(2015)
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
as Presenter
(2015)
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
as Presenter
(2015)
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
as Presenter and Writer
(2015)
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
as Presenter
(2015)
The Schlieffen Plan
as Presenter
(2015)
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
as Presenter and Director
(2015)
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
as Presenter
(2014)
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
as Presenter & Director
(2014)
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
as Presenter and Director
(2014)
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
as Presenter
(2014)
Le Cateau
as Presenter and Director
(2014)
Néry and the Retreat from Mons
as Presenter
(2014)
Mons 1914
as Presenter and Director
(2013)
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
as Himself - Presenter
(2013)
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
as Presenter
(2013)
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
as Presenter
(2013)
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
as Presenter
(2013)
(2013)
(2012)
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
as Presenter
(2012)
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
as Presenter
(2012)
(2012)
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
as Director and Presenter
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
as Presenter
(2012)
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
as Presenter
(2012)
Salamanca
as Presenter
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
as Presenter
(2010)
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
as Presenter
(2009)
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
as Himself - Presenter and Writer
(2009)
The 1066 Hastings Campaign
as Presenter
(1914)
The Race to the Sea - 1914
as Presenter
Crew
(2015)
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
Director
(2015)
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
Director
(2013)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2009)
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
Director, Editor