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2013 Tours

2012 Battlefield Tours

| World War 1 | World War 2 | Specialised tours | Bespoke tours |

 

For 2012 you will find many new flying tours flying tour 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: 

 flying tour indicates a flying tour

  2012 Dates
3 Days, 2 Nights

 

 

Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit

A most popular introductory tour.

 

16th–18th March
Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit

 

30th March–1st April
Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit

 

20th–22nd April
Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit

 

8th–10th June
Somme 96th Anniversary and Ypres

 

30th June–2nd July
Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit

 

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

 

‘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

 

11th–14th May
Early Battles
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Fromelles, Loos, Ypres
  18th–21st May

Ypres Salient War Walk

Plugstreet, Polygon, Paschendaele, Pilkem

  15th–18th June
96th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and Ypres visit

 

30th June–3rd July
Battles of the Woods
The attack on Mametz Wood, Delville Wood and High Wood

 

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.

 

19th–22nd October
Armistice Anniversary, Ypres and Somme visit

 

9th–12th November

Anniversary of Armistice at Thiepval Memorial

Somme and Ypres Battlefield visit.

  9th–12th November
5 Days, 4 Nights

 

Verdun and Somme

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

 

 
Mons, the First and Last Shots
The Marne, Aisne, Nery, Armistice Clearing, Compiegne.

 

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.

 

17th–23rd May

Italian Front: Ist World War Italian Campaign flying tour
Asiago Plateau, Crossing the Piave, Isonzo and Caporetto.
Led by Mr Dale Hjort, our expert guide on these Historical Battlefields.
  28th September–4th October

 

 

World War 2 battlefield tours: 
 
flying tour indicates a flying tour

 

2012 Dates
4 Days, 3 Nights    
St. Nazaire Combined Operations Raid flying tour
70th Anniversary of the 'Greatest Raid of all'.
Led by Peter Lush from the St. Nazaire Society.
 

26th–29th March

Fall of Berlin and Seelow Heights flying tour
From Seelow Heights to the fall of the Reichstag
 

23rd–26th June

Krakow, Schindler's List and Auschwitz flying tour  

14th–17th July

Raid on Dieppe
Operation Jubilee
  17th–20th August
5 Days, 4 Nights

 

The Cockleshell Heroes Tour flying tour

Operation Frankton

  14th–18th April

Famous Raids Tour
Dieppe, Bruneval, Amiens Prison, La Coupole V2 Rocket Site

 

27th April–1st May

Berlin, Colditz Castle and Dresden flying tour

 

19th–23rd May

The Dyle Line to Dunkirk

The story of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 1940

 

26th–30th May
The Eagles Nest flying tour
Bertchesgaden, Obersaltzburg, Munich and Dachau

 

2nd–6th June

Normandy Beaches Anniversary Tour
Operation Overlord

 

4th–8th June

St. Nazaire, Combined Operations Raid
and Normandy Beaches visit.
Led by Peter Lush from the St. Nazaire Society.

 

20th–24th July

Normandy Beaches Tour
Operation Overlord

 

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 flying tour
Battlefield/Pilgrimage Tour
  20th–24th September

Battle of the Bulge

The Ardennes

  29th Sept–3rd Oct
6 Days, 5 Nights

 

Berlin and the Peenemunde Rocket Site flying tour   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 flying tour   4th–9th August
7 Days, 6 Nights

 

 

Berlin Special

 

6th–12th October
8 Days, 7 Nights

 

 

Egypt Tour flying tour
Mersah Matruh, Halfaya Pass, Sollum, Alamein, Alexandria and Cairo.
(VISA REQUIRED)

 

7th–14th September
9 Days, 8 Nights

 

Tunisia, Battlefield and Pilgrimage Tour flying tour

 

21st–29th October
10 Days, 9 Nights

 

 

Italian Campaign Battlefield and Pilgrimage Tour flying tour

 

20th September–1st October
11 Days, 10 Nights

 

 

D-Day to Berlin
The Northwest Europe Campaign, the fall of Nazi Germany
  7th–17th July
12 Days, 11 Nights

 

 

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

 

 

Specialised battlefield tours:  
flying tour indicates a flying tour

 

2012 Dates

8 Days, 9 Nights    
TURKEY: Gallipoli and The Dardanelles flying tour
Led by Dale Hjort
  6th–14th May
2nd–10th September
9 Days, 8 Nights

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour flying tour
Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso/Spioen Kop

 

19th–27th January

CRIMEA: Crimean War Battlefield Tours flying tour
Alma, Sevastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava and Yalta Visit

 

6th–14th May
9th–17th September
11 Days, 10 Nights  

SINGAPORE: The fall of Singapore, Bangkok flying tour

'The Bridge on the River Kwai' and the Death Railway

 

20th–30th November

13 Days, 12 Nights    
RUSSIA: Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk flying tour
(VISA REQUIRED)
 

11th–25th June

15 Days, 14 Nights

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour flying tour
Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso/Spioen Kop, Bloemfontein, Kimberley Belmont, Graspan, Orange River, Modder River, Magersfontein and Paardberg

  12th–26th August
16th–30th October

RUSSIA: Sieges, Tzars and Solovetski Island Gulag flying tour
Moscow, St.Petersburg (Leningrad) and Solovetski Island Gulag
(VISA REQUIRED)

 

23rd July–6th August