During more than thirty years of designing and guiding battlefield tours, I’ve taken many thousands of travellers to remarkable locations in Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Canada and the USA.
At the Somme Memorial to the Missing, War Poets Tour
Many of my tours are in partnership with The Cultural Experience, an established ATOL protected tour operator.
Dinner at the Ariane Hotel, Ypres, on the Medics and Padres tour
Travel by Eurostar from London St Pancras to meet our driver in Lille.
Follow these links for Tours in 2023 & beyond:
The Tank War 17th-20th May 2025
Mons and Le Cateau 31st August – 3rd September 2025
The Battles of the Marne and Aisne 6th-11th September 2025
Mons and Le Cateau 31st August – 3rd September 2025
Bespoke Tours
Bespoke Tour for Bear Grylls, 2018
Increasingly popular are bespoke tours for groups or families. Travellers in recent years have also included the adventurer Bear Grylls, an Academy Award winning scriptwriter, a Turner Prize winning artist, the heritage organisation 14-18 NOW and Boodles Private Members’ Club. Long experience in researching soldiers service greatly enhances the experience.
A bespoke tour, visiting a family grave on the Western Front.
An unsolicited testimonial for a Western Front tour guided for Engineers Australia in 2022:
Simon Jones was our guide for a 4-day tour of ANZAC sites on the western front at the end of April 2022, which focused on tunnelling activities of Australians and New Zealanders during WW1. It was an annual Regional Tour for our UK Chapter of Engineers Australia and everyone in the group had an amazing experience. Simon worked closely with the UK Chapter organiser to select a set of varied stops, stories to present and activities. He was extremely helpful in recommending hotels and lunch stops and his professional network opened the tour group up to opportunities that we wouldn’t have had without him onboard. He provided detailed itineraries and route maps for the tour and helpful hints for logistics, which kept us all on track during our packed agenda. His knowledge and storytelling brought all the events he presented to life and the human experience to the fore. He also managed to help one attendee locate a family connection to the western front during the tour. We would thoroughly recommend Simon as a tour guide. He truly made our regional tour unforgettable.
UK Chapter of Engineers Australia & UK Branch of Engineering New Zealand
Schools Tours
I also guide school groups with Battlefield & History Tours, including visits to the First World War battlefields with St. Mary’s School, Ascot , Queen’s College, London, and the D-Day landing sites with The American School in London annually for the past 20 years.
Visiting the German Cemetery at La Cambe, Normandy.
With Queen’s College, London, at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, 2023.
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Unexploded shells and grenades on the Somme.
Messines battlefield, Spanbroekmolen mine crater.
Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Libya, with the custodian Mohammed.
Gallipoli, with Nigel Steel.
Western Desert El Alamein tour, Mersa Matruh.
Simon Jones Historian 
Are you intending to run any tours to the Western Desert battlefields in 2020?
Sadly I’m not and I’m not aware of tours at present to the Western Desert of Egypt. Obviously Libya has been inaccessible for a number of years.
Are there any plans for a tour of the Western Desert battlefield in 2022 please ?
Alas there are no plans at present for this destination, much as I would love to return.
Many thanks for your reply Mr Jones. I’m planning on visiting El Alamein for the 80th Anniversary in that year and am determined to do so one way or another. Hopefully there will be some tour operators still in business by then !! My very best wishes to you, and thanks again.
You may wish to contact The Cultural Experience: https://www.theculturalexperience.com/contact.php
I was booked to go to Halfaya Sollum where my father is buried at this time last year but a medical emergency intervened. I want to do this as soon as I can so would appreciate advice on any tours likely to go.
I’m sorry to hear that Rod. I am not aware of any tours unfortunately but suggest that you contact The Cultural Experience https://www.theculturalexperience.com/contact.php