2012 Battlefield Tours
| World War 1 | World War 2 | Specialised tours | Bespoke tours |
For 2012 you will find many new flying tours 
to new locations, whilst we continue to do all the planning and guiding; these tours, and our existing flying tours, will be organised through Carrick Travel Ltd, which is a bonded company. The tours provided this way will meet with the requirements of ABTA (ABTA number 18343) and the CAA (ATOL number 1159).
World War 1 Battlefield Tours: |
2012 Dates | |
| 3 Days, 2 Nights |
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Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit A most popular introductory tour. |
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16th–18th March |
| Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit |
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30th March–1st April |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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20th–22nd April |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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8th–10th June |
| Somme 96th Anniversary and Ypres |
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30th June–2nd July |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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31st August–2nd September |
| Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit | 7th–9th September | |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit | 5th–7th October | |
| Armistice Ypres Anniversary | 10th–12th November | |
| Armistice Thiepval Anniversary | 10th–12th November | |
| 4 Days, 3 Nights |
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‘Cheerful Sacrifice’ Battle of Arras 95th Anniversary Tour Led by Jonathan Nicholls, Author of the highly acclaimed book. |
8th–11th April | |
| Somme and Ypres Battlefield Tour |
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11th–14th May |
| Early Battles Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Fromelles, Loos, Ypres |
18th–21st May | |
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Plugstreet, Polygon, Paschendaele, Pilkem |
15th–18th June | |
| 96th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and Ypres visit |
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30th June–3rd July |
| Battles of the Woods The attack on Mametz Wood, Delville Wood and High Wood |
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13th–16th July |
| Battle of the Somme War Walk Walk the Front Line of 1st July 1916, our most popular war walk. |
25th–28th August | |
| Plugstreet Wood and Salient Points Ypres and Somme tour; 'A Walk Round Plugstreet' and 'Salient Points' the excellent book by Tony Spangnoly and Ted Smith. |
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19th–22nd October |
| Armistice Anniversary, Ypres and Somme visit |
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9th–12th November |
Anniversary of Armistice at Thiepval Memorial Somme and Ypres Battlefield visit. |
9th–12th November | |
| 5 Days, 4 Nights |
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Including a visit to 'Des flammes... à la lumière' depicting the history of Verdun before, during, and after the War. |
5th–9th July | |
| 6 Days, 5 Nights |
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| Mons, the First and Last Shots The Marne, Aisne, Nery, Armistice Clearing, Compiegne. |
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31st August–5th September |
| 7 Days, 6 Nights | ||
| United States Forces in the Great War Marne, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, St. Mihel, Verdun, Argonne and the Hindenburg Line. |
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17th–23rd May |
| Italian Front: Ist World War Italian Campaign Asiago Plateau, Crossing the Piave, Isonzo and Caporetto. Led by Mr Dale Hjort, our expert guide on these Historical Battlefields. |
28th September–4th October | |
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| World War 2 battlefield tours: indicates a flying tour |
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2012 Dates |
| 4 Days, 3 Nights | ||
| St. Nazaire Combined Operations Raid 70th Anniversary of the 'Greatest Raid of all'. Led by Peter Lush from the St. Nazaire Society. |
26th–29th March |
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| Fall of Berlin and Seelow Heights From Seelow Heights to the fall of the Reichstag |
23rd–26th June |
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| Krakow, Schindler's List and Auschwitz |
14th–17th July |
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| Raid on Dieppe Operation Jubilee |
17th–20th August | |
| 5 Days, 4 Nights |
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Operation Frankton |
14th–18th April | |
Famous Raids Tour |
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27th April–1st May |
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19th–23rd May | |
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26th–30th May | |
| The Eagles Nest Bertchesgaden, Obersaltzburg, Munich and Dachau |
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2nd–6th June |
Normandy Beaches Anniversary Tour |
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4th–8th June |
St. Nazaire, Combined Operations Raid |
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20th–24th July |
Normandy Beaches Tour |
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1st–5th September |
| The Defence of Great Britain 1940-41 | 8th–12th September | |
| 'A Bridge Too Far' Anniversary Tour Arnhem, Nijmegen – 68th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. |
20th–24th September | |
| The Italian Campaign Battlefield/Pilgrimage Tour |
20th–24th September | |
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The Ardennes |
29th Sept–3rd Oct | |
| 6 Days, 5 Nights |
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| Berlin and the Peenemunde Rocket Site |
24th–29th March | |
| Dambusters Raid and Colditz Castle Led by Robert Owen, 'Official Historian 617 Squadron Aircrew Association' |
4th–9th August | |
| Warsaw and The Woolf's Lair |
4th–9th August | |
| 7 Days, 6 Nights |
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| Berlin Special |
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6th–12th October |
| 8 Days, 7 Nights |
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| Egypt Tour Mersah Matruh, Halfaya Pass, Sollum, Alamein, Alexandria and Cairo. (VISA REQUIRED) |
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7th–14th September |
| 9 Days, 8 Nights |
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21st–29th October | |
| 10 Days, 9 Nights |
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20th September–1st October | |
| 11 Days, 10 Nights |
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| D-Day to Berlin The Northwest Europe Campaign, the fall of Nazi Germany |
7th–17th July | |
| 12 Days, 11 Nights |
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| Great Escapes Tour Holland, Germany and Poland – Arnhem, Belsen, Berlin, Zagan (Great Escape Camp), Auschwitz, Dresden, Colditz Castle and the Mohne Dam |
11th–22nd August | |
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| Specialised battlefield tours: indicates a flying tour |
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2012 Dates |
| 8 Days, 9 Nights | ||
| TURKEY: Gallipoli and The Dardanelles Led by Dale Hjort |
6th–14th May 2nd–10th September |
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| 9 Days, 8 Nights |
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso/Spioen Kop |
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19th–27th January |
CRIMEA: Crimean War Battlefield Tours |
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6th–14th May 9th–17th September |
| 11 Days, 10 Nights | ||
SINGAPORE: The fall of Singapore, Bangkok 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' and the Death Railway |
20th–30th November |
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| 13 Days, 12 Nights | ||
| RUSSIA: Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk (VISA REQUIRED) |
11th–25th June |
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| 15 Days, 14 Nights |
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SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour |
12th–26th August 16th–30th October |
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RUSSIA: Sieges, Tzars and Solovetski Island Gulag |
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23rd July–6th August |
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