2013 Battlefield Tours
| World War 1 | World War 2 | Specialised tours | Bespoke tours |
For 2013 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: |
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| 3 Days, 2 Nights |
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Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit A most popular introduction tour. |
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15th–17th March |
| Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit |
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5th–7th April |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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19th–21st April |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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14th–16th June |
| Somme 97th Anniversary |
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30th June–2nd July |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit |
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30th August–1st September |
| Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit | 6th–8th September | |
| Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit | 4th–6th 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 96th Anniversary Tour Led by Jonathan Nicholls, Author of the highly acclaimed book. |
8th–11th April | |
| Victoria Cross Winners Tour Somme and Ypres Battlefield Tour |
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10th–13th May |
| Early Battles Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Ypres and Loos |
17th–20th May | |
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Plugstreet, Polygon, Paschendaele, Pilkem |
21st–24th June | |
| 97th 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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12th–15th July |
| Advance to Victory Last 100 days of the War. Villers Bretonneux – Mons |
7th–10th August | |
| Battle of the Somme War Walk Walk the Front Line of 1st July 1916, our most popular war walk. |
16th–19th 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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18th–21st 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. |
4th–8th July | |
| The Empire and Doughboys in the Great War The Commonwealth forces in the Great War; Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and Iindia. Plus the American Forces actions. |
25th–29th July | |
Mons, the first and last shots |
24th–28th August | |
| 7 Days, 6 Nights | ||
| United States Forces in the Great War The American success in the South; Marne, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, St. Mihel, Verdun, Argonne and the Hindenburg Line. |
22nd–28th 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. |
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27th September–3rd October |
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| World War 2 battlefield tours: indicates a flying tour |
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2013 Dates |
| 4 Days, 3 Nights | ||
| Berlin From Seelow Heights to the fall of the Reichstag |
24th–27th June |
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| Krakow, Schindler's List and Auschwitz |
15th–18th July |
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| Battle of the V Weapons | 13th–16th September | |
| 5 Days, 4 Nights |
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Operation Frankton |
13th–17th April | |
| Famous Raids Tour Dieppe, Bruneval, Amiens Prison and La Coupole V2 Rocket Site |
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27th April–1st May |
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19th–23rd May | |
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30th May–3rd June | |
| The Eagles Nest Bertchesgaden, Obersaltzburg, Munich and Dachau |
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25th–29th May |
Normandy Beaches Anniversary Tour |
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4th–8th June |
St. Nazaire, Combined Operations Raid |
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25th–29th July |
Normandy Beaches Tour |
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5th–9th September |
The Defence of Great Britain 1940-41 '... if necessary alone.' |
12th–16th September | |
| 'A Bridge Too Far' Anniversary Tour Arnhem, Nijmegen – 69th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. |
19th–23rd September | |
| The Italian Campaign Battlefield/Pilgrimage Tour |
19th–23rd September | |
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The Ardennes |
26th–30th September | |
| 6 Days, 5 Nights |
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| Berlin and the Peenemunde Rocket Site |
22nd–27th March | |
| Dambusters Raid and Colditz Castle Led by Robert Owen, 'Official Historian 617 Squadron Aircrew Association'. |
1st–6th August | |
| Warsaw and The Woolf's Lair |
8th–13th August | |
| 7 Days, 6 Nights |
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| Berlin Special |
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5th–11th 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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10th–16th September |
| 9 Days, 8 Nights |
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15th–23rd October | |
| 10 Days, 9 Nights |
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19th–28th September | |
| 11 Days, 10 Nights |
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| D-Day to Berlin The fall of Nazi Germany |
13th–23rd 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 |
17th–28th August | |
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| Specialised battlefield tours: indicates a flying tour |
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2013 Dates |
| 9 Days, 8 Nights | ||
| TURKEY: Gallipoli and The Dardanelles Led by Dale Hjort |
5th–13th May | |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso/Spioen Kop |
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16th–24th January |
CRIMEA: Crimean War Battlefield Tours |
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5th–13th May 8th–16th 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) |
10th–22nd June |
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| 15 Days, 14 Nights |
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SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour |
16th–30th October |
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RUSSIA: Sieges, Tzars and Solovetski Island Gulag |
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22nd July–5th August |
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