
Tom Dormer
Department: Acting
Biography
Tom was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and gained a Kitchener Scholarship to read geography at University College London in 1972. He was appointed as a research assistant on graduation and undertook three years' research in historical geography at UCL. Tom has pursued two separate careers, one in commerce and the other in the military serving as a platoon commander in the 1st and 2nd battalions of The Royal Anglian Regiment and, subsequently, 14 years in the TA. Tom's business life is unusual in that he has developed successfully three diverse ventures under the umbrella of The Dormer Group. These interests include licensed property valuations, stocktaking, retail audits and asset registers, and a software house designing and supplying systems for payroll and accounts. He also developed the largest natural stone supplier and installer in the UK, specialising in designing and manufacturing high–quality natural limestone floors and facades. Tom is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides who specialises on WW1 and WW2. Tom is the Finance Director of Battlefield History TV.
Known For

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways
2012

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
2013

The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
2011

Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
2012

Mons 1914
2014

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
2014

Le Cateau
2014

Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
2013

First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
2015

Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
2014

Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
2013

The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
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Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
2011

Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
2015

Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
2010

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
2012

Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
2015

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
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Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
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Néry and the Retreat from Mons
2014

Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
2015

Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
2013

Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
2015

Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
2016

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour
2012

SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
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Salamanca
2012

The Somme 1916: The Sunken Lane
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The Battle of Naseby 1645
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Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
2012