About Cooper's Waterloo Tours

Cooper's Waterloo Tours

Established in 2000 we are a family business offering professional bespoke and scheduled tours to the battlefields of Europe.

We guide organisations, families, small groups and individuals on scheduled and bespoke tours to the First and Second World War battlefields, yet our speciality lies in the bloody and dramatic campaigns of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington at the turn of the 19th century.

Histories are manmade and can be fallible, battlefield terrain is neither and seldom is radically altered.

Battlefield Tours should focus the guest and deliver a real understanding and perspective of the terrain in order to place relative perceived history into context. A good guide emulates the sport skill of orienteering, always to orientate and relate from ground to map and seldom the reverse.

By placing the battle in context on the ground which influenced its outcome we can then relate the personal stories of those who fought upon it.

This sequence, and an engaging guide who delivers what he/she believes is the truth, is what brings history alive. Only then is a rewarding, educational, memorable and friendly venture experienced.

Our Testimonials declare our standards

Graeme Cooper endeavours to impresses upon his guests the value and nature of the topography of a battlefield, but may also to ensure that they leave with a true sense of understanding of the battle and of the personal experiences of those who endured.  

Graeme, a former Infantry Officer and keen outdoors man led his first tour in 1973. It is with this background that he qualifies to lead his own distinctively styled tours.

The aim of any tour should be to absorb the guest in the compelling battles of the historic era of their choice. Battlefield Guides are Story Tellers… engaging you what they perceive to be the historical truth.

What is written by the vanquished after battle is seldom the same reflection as scribed by the victors. The onus therefore is on the Guide to involve clients with truthful presentation in an engaging way. All this, coupled with a conscientious duty of care and a real enthusiasm for his subject matter, enables the guide to generate a friendly and bonding atmosphere within the tour party.

It is our desire to help you achieve just that, as we trust we have for others in the past. Allow yourself an enthralling and unforgettable quest into history and enjoy an experience of a lifetime with other like–minded folk who also share that desire to follow the footsteps of history.

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