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Professor Richard Holmes CBE

Military Historian and Broadcaster
29 March 1946 to 29 April 2011

A military historian whose knowledge of and enthusiasm for his subject was effectively conveyed in several popular television series, Holmes presented War Walks (1996), War Walks 2 (1997), The Western Front (1999), Wellington: the Iron Duke (2002), Rebels and Redcoats (2003) and In The Footsteps of Churchill (2005) among others.

- Read Professor Richard Holmes's Guardian obituary.

- Read Professor Richard Holmes's Telegraph obituary.