Graeme Cooper

Biography

Graeme has been battlefield guiding since 1995 and now operates Cooper's Waterloo Tours, a family run business specialising in tailored tours of the Napoleonic Campaign battlefields of the Peninsular War and Waterloo for adults, and leadership training for the military. A Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society (FINS), Graeme qualified as a Waterloo Campaign Guide with Les Guides 1815 in 1998. Graeme's interest in the Waterloo Campaign was sparked during his time as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst by the late lecturers and renowned military historians and authors, Professor Richard Holmes and Dr David Chandler. This intrigue, kept alive by a military career, has maintained his fascination for the Campaign and a strong concern for the preservation of the battlefield, which he first visited in 1973.  In November 2002, Graeme founded The Guild of Battlefield Guides and was the Secretary up until November 2009 when he became the first member of the Guild to be elected to the Roll of Honour for his services to the Guild. Graeme is a recognised Great War and WW2 Guide, member of the Battlefields Trust and former Chairman of the British Army of the Rhine Branch of the Western Front Association. He lives in Essex, is married and has a son and daughter both commissioned in the British Army.  Graeme is proud of his association with BHTV since its formation in 2008. He believes that the Waterloo Collection is a unique and a desirable record of the Waterloo Campaign that every Napoleonic connoisseur should acquire. http://www.waterlootours.co.uk/