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Andrew Duff was educated at Christ Church Cathedral Choir School and Dauntseys School. It was whilst he was at school and visiting his parents in Cyprus and India that his interest in history generally, and military history in particular, were kindled. He was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Royal Anglian Regiment. He served with 3 Royal Anglian (the successor regiment to the Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiments) in UK, Germany, Cyprus, N Ireland and Belize, commanding companies on operational tours in Cyprus, N Ireland and Belize. He also carried out regimental tours of duty as Adjutant/Training Officer of the Bermuda Regiment and as Training Major of 5 Royal Anglian. As a staff officer he did tours in Military Operations, Intelligence and Security, Exercise Planning and finished his regular service as the officer responsible for the Arctic Warfare Training and Operations of the UK Element of the Allied Mobile Force. On leaving the Regular Army he settled in Wiltshire and joined the Territorial Army (TA) serving with HQ 5 Airborne Bde and then HQ 16 Air Assault Bde. Since leaving the TA he has been able to indulge his lifelong interest in Military History by becoming a Battlefield Tour Guide and has conducted successful tours for schools, military groups and adults. Andrew is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides Andrew is the Executive Producer and a Director of Battlefield History TV. Contact [email protected]
Most Popular Andrew Duff Trailers
Total trailers found: 35
20 April 2012
In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield from reinforcements.
09 November 2015
Ten Years after the English victory in Crecy an Anglo/Gascon Army led by Edward of Woodstock, The Prince of Wales, won a great victory at Poitiers on 19 September 1356.
31 May 2015
While the Allies were nearing panic as the Germans approached Paris, Marshal Foch quickly realised the German intent and that the Schlieffen plan was unravelling.
28 March 2012
The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force. Their task was to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach codenamed SWORD.
16 April 2015
With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse, the cross roads town of Bastogne, vital for the success of Hitler's last attempt to check the Allies in the west, the Americans rushed reinforcements to hold it.
01 May 2009
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD is the second DVD in this sensational new series, The Dark Ages, which delves into a war-torn and obscure period of Britain's past to focus on some of the pivotal events that completely altered the history, culture and politics of the British Isles.
05 May 2015
In 1914 the German Attack on France was based on a later iteration of the plan that Von Schlieffen produced in 1905.
30 May 2014
As Gen Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps retreated from Mons, along with rest of the BEF, they were closely pursued by Von Kluck’s Army.
30 June 2012
In 1941 Dr RV Jones realised that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for increasing RAF bomber casualties.
22 October 1914
In October 1914 as the Battle of the Aisne drew to a close both the Allies and the Germans started to dig in.
30 May 2013
On 11 July 1346 Edward III's Anglo/Welsh army landed at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. Over 12 months this army won 3 major battles Caen, Blanchtaque and Crecy and captured Calais, which would remain in English hands until 1558.
14 October 2014
After the victory at Salamanca Wellington's Army had mixed fortunes and by the the winter of 1812/3 was back in Portugal.
05 January 2016
This film tells the story of one of the most contentious combats of WW2, the actions of Kamfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge.
01 June 2012
Continuing the story of 'Operation Bulbasket' the BHTV team follow the development of the attacks on the railways in order to delay the arrival of crucial German re-enforcements in Normandy.
17 April 2013
Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the central beach of the Allied D day landings.
05 May 2015
With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in, both the German and Allied commanders realised the dominance of the defensive, established by quick firing artillery and the machinegun, meaning that casualties in frontal attacks on a dug-in enemy were enormously heavy.
27 February 2014
On the 22nd of August 1914 the recently deployed BEF fought and delayed the German First Army of Von Kluck in around the industrial coal mining town of Mons.
17 October 2011
Following on from Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack, Part III starts just as the great battle reaches its crisis point.
28 September 2015
95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peninsular Collection from BHTV .
14 December 2012
With 2 Para isolated at the Arnhem Bridge and both 1 and 4 Para Brigades thwarted in their attempts to fight their way into Arnhem and falling back, what became the Oosterbeek Perimeter started to form around Divisional HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel.
30 June 2015
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna is a film in The Peninsular Collection from BHTV and Pen and Sword Digital.
02 May 2009
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is with out a doubt one of the most significant events in English history.
23 May 2011
This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras.
02 July 2014
Following the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau the already near exhausted British Expeditionary Force, who had been marching and fighting for six days without a break , embarked on a nine day epic march across France.
06 June 2012
On 22nd July 1812 Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army with their Spanish allies won a momentous victory over the French commanded by Marmont at Salamanca.
26 June 2013
In 1415 a small English Army consisting mainly of Yeoman English and Welsh archers defeated and destroyed a much larger French army consisting mainly of the nobility of France at Agincourt.
16 December 2015
The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army fell on the inexperienced 106th US Infantry Division, who had not only just arrived in the Europe but had only been in the line for five days, in what was supposed to be a 'ghost front'.
18 July 2013
In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before following the advance of one of Hitler's most successful panzer commanders, Hasso von Manteuffel, Fifth Panzer Army.
09 November 2015
Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the scale of size and complexity by electing to attack and deny the only dry dock that could take a German battleship for repairs, the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire on France's Atlantic coast.
10 February 2014
This film tells the story of Col Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Bn and their heroic attack on the gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, which covered both Omaha and Utah beaches.
16 April 2015
The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force. A battalion commander now led a new Fallschirmjäger regiment, deployed to Normandy in the spring of 1944 to the very area where the US Paratroopers were to drop on D Day.
09 January 2012
The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldiers of the Hitlerjugend.
04 November 2013
69 Infantry Brigade had a highly successful landing and now had to fight its way through German defences to its objectives eight miles away.
30 September 2015
The Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 21 April–25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium, following the First Battle of Ypres the previous autumn.
24 October 1914
On the 31st Oct 1914 the Germans were on the cusp of victory at Ypres. troops of the German 30th and 54th Divisions had broken the line at Geluveldt to the east of Ypres.
