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As a freelance archaeologist and historian specialising in 20th century maritime warfare, I’m lucky enough to work in a field that I’m deeply passionate about. I have been researching Coastal Forces for a number of years and in that time I have recorded or advised on the future of a number of historic motor boats and authored the Haynes Manual on Motor Gun Boats.
Alongside Coastal Forces, I have researched a number of aspects of D-Day, principally embarkation from the south coast (an ongoing line of work originating from a limited study in 2014). This work has included archaeological and historical assessments, which have shed new light on D-Day sites in the UK. A study in 2018 led to the recovery of a number Mulberry Harbour Kite Anchors off the Isle of Wight and ongoing research has highlighted the role of embarkation areas such as Lepe Country Park.
My D-Day research has also included landing craft. My earliest work was as part of an investigation of LCT 2428, which sank the night before D-Day, depositing its cargo of tanks on the seabed of the Solent. I carried out the historical research for the documentary No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave and between 2019 and 2020 I was the heritage adviser for the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s restoration of LCT 7074.
Between 2014 and 2017, I led the research of more than 1,100 First World War shipwrecks along the south coast of England for the Maritime Archaeology Trust’s Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War project. Previous work has included compiling a comprehensive archaeological desk based assessment of the Second World War archaeology of the New Forest, overseeing a comprehensive study of historic rights of way in Hampshire, and work at Stonehenge. At present I undertake archaeological surveys of the New Forest and occasionally sail with National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions as a historian.
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