Vic Piuk

British born

British-born Vic gained a history degree in 1982, part of which was studying the Great War, and
afterwards became a journalist on local newspapers. Assignments abroad took him to Bosnia
following the peacekeeping duties of one local regiment and also to Normandy as a memorial was
unveiled to their comrades by another.
His deep and abiding love of history, especially the Great War, took him and his wife, Diane, to the
Somme in 1999, where they opened a B&B and led battlefield tours. Vic especially loves sharing the
tales of veterans he knew and visited the battlefields with and believes it gives a unique special
insight into the conflict.
His vast experience has seen him lead tours from the Western Front’s most northern point on the
Belgium coast, down 800kms to its most southern end where France meets Switzerland. These
include the Great War Battlefields of Flanders, Artois, the Somme, Aisne, Marne, Champagne,
Verdun and the Vosges. He also focuses on the nationalities involved in the fighting, be they British,
Commonwealth, American, French and German.
Vic particularly likes to guide walking tours of the Western Front battlefields and also specialises in
the literature and poetry of the Great War. He has Slovenian heritage and has an extensive
knowledge of the Isonzo front in Slovenia and has guided groups there and in Italy.
Vic has written numerous articles about the war for various publications, contributed to TV
documentaries including his most recent one on the Bouzincourt quarries detailing WW1 soldier
signatures and written three books on the subject.