Graeme has been battlefield guiding since 1995 and now operates Cooper's Waterloo Tours, a family run business specialising in tailored tours of the Napoleonic Campaign battlefields of the Peninsular War and Waterloo for adults, and leadership training for the military. A Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society (FINS), Graeme qualified as a Waterloo Campaign Guide with Les Guides 1815 in 1998. Graeme's interest in the Waterloo Campaign was sparked during his time as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst by the late lecturers and renowned military historians and authors, Professor Richard Holmes and Dr David Chandler. This intrigue, kept alive by a military career, has maintained his fascination for the Campaign and a strong concern for the preservation of the battlefield, which he first visited in 1973.