Paul Oldfield

Paul Oldfield

In a military career spanning 36 years, Paul served in most of the usual hotspots, including three years in Ulster, plus the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. Other appointments including running the MOD’s Africa team for three years and commanding a mountain and arctic warfare unit. He has also served with the Gurkhas. Paul was educated in Sheffield and at Victoria College in Jersey, where he became interested in the German fortifications. Being of the post-war generation he had plenty of relatives with military experience, which, combined with those excellent war films of the 1940-60s, provided the initial spark of interest in all things military. He ran his first tour in 1983 on the Somme and has dabbled in WW1 and WW2 tours ever since. Paul is a member of the Western Front Association, the Gallipoli Association and the Victoria Cross Society. He joined the Guild in April 2008 and was presented with Badge 51 on 20 November 2010. Paul lives in Wiltshire and is married with three grown–up children. In 1988 he co-authored ‘Sheffield City Battalion’ in the Pals series. ‘Cockleshell Raid’ and ‘Bruneval’ in Pen & Sword’s Battleground Europe series were published in 2013. The first in a series of nine books on Western Front VCs,‘Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, August 1914 – April 1915, Mons to Hill 60’ was published in July 2014. The remaining eight books in the series will be published biannually until mid-2018. Retirement from the Army in March 2011 gave him more time to devote to battlefield studies and he is always looking for new challenges and opportunities. With his military experience he is able to bring a soldier's insight to battlefields past.

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Paul Oldfield Movies

  • 2014
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    Mons 1914

    Mons 1914

    1 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Le Cateau

    Le Cateau

    1 2014 HD

    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. On...

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  • 2015
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    Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

    Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack

    1 2015 HD

    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,...

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  • 2012
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    Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

    Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting

    1 2012 HD

    In 1941 Dr RV Jones realised that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for increasing RAF bomber casualties. An enemy...

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  • 2014
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    Néry and the Retreat from Mons

    Néry and the Retreat from Mons

    1 2014 HD

    Following the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau the already near exhausted British Expeditionary Force, who had been marching and fighting for six days...

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  • 2015
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    Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

    Battles of the Marne & the Aisne

    1 2015 HD

    While the Allies were nearing panic as the Germans approached Paris, Marshal Foch quickly realised the German intent and that the Schlieffen plan was...

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  • 2015
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    The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

    The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid

    1 2015 HD

    Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the scale of size and complexity by electing...

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  • 2019
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    Who Farted?

    Who Farted?

    6 2019 HD

    A collaboration between acclaimed Canadian documentary filmmakers Nik Sheehan (FLicKeR, No Sad Songs) and Albert Nerenberg (You are What you Act,...

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