Sword Beach

Stephen Fisher is a historian and archaeologist, specialising in military history. Growing up on British Forces bases in Germany and then the British Army’s training area on Salisbury Plain, Stephen’s professional career includes cataloguing the entirety of World War II archaeology of the New Forest National Park and researching First World War shipwrecks in the English Channel. He was the heritage adviser for the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s restoration of LCT 7074, the last surviving landing craft tank used in D-Day. As well as studying the events of World War II on the Normandy coast, Stephen has extensively investigated the extent of surviving D-Day infrastructure on England’s south coast, contributing to television programmes such as ITV’s My Grandad’s War and No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave. When he’s not researching military history, Stephen undertakes archaeological surveys around the south of England, and lectures on small expedition vessels around the world.