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battlefield tours, ww1 and ww2

2008 Battlefield tours
| World War 1 | World War 2 | Specialised tours | Bespoke tours | Schools tours |
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World War 1 battlefield tours – 2008

   

3 Days, 2 Nights

 

 

Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit
an introduction to the Somme Battlefields

 

14th – 16th March

Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit

 

4th – 6th April

Ypres Battlefields and Somme visit
hear incredible cameos about soldiers that Tony Spagnoly, and co-author Ted Smith, have researched for their book 'Plugstreet and Salient Points'

 

18th – 20th April

Somme 92nd Anniversary

 

30th June – 2nd July

Somme Battlefields and Ypres visit

 

3rd – 5th October

Armistice Ypres 90th Anniversary

 

10th – 12th November

Armistice Thiepval 90th Anniversary

 

10th – 12th November

4 Days, 3 Nights

 

 

Somme and Ypres Battlefield Tour

 

2nd – 5th May

Somme 92nd Anniversary and Ypres visit

 

30th June – 3rd July

Battles for the Woods
Mametz Wood, Devile Wood and High Wood

 

11th – 14th July

Advance to Victory – 90th Anniversary Tour
Villers Bretonneux, Mons – 8th August 1918 last 100 days of the war

 

8th – 11th August

Battle of the Somme War Walk
The front line of the 1st July 1916

 

22nd – 25th August

Plugstreet Wood and Salient Points
Ypres Battlefields and Somme Tour

 

17th – 20th October

Armistice 90th Anniversary Tour
Ypres and Somme visit

 

9th – 12th November

Armistice at Thiepval 90th Anniversary
Somme and Ypres Battlefield visit

 

9th – 12th November

5 Days, 4 Nights

 

 

Early Battles
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, 1st Ypres and Loos

 

23rd – 27th May

Ypres Saliient War Walk
Plugstreet, Polygon, Paschendaele and Pilkem

 

12th – 16th June

Verdun and Somme

 

17th – 21st July

6 Days, 5 Nights

 

 

Mons, the first and last shots
The Marne, Aisne, Nery, Armistice Clearing, Compiegne

 

28th August – 2nd September

Italian Front, 90th Anniversary Tour
Asiago Plateau, Crossing the Piave, Isonzo and Caporetto

 

7th – 13th September

7 Days, 6 Nights

 

 

United States Forces in the Great War
90th Anniversary of the American success in the South

 

8th – 14th May

 

 

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World War 2 battlefield tours – 2008

 

 

4 Days, 3 Nights

 

 

Dunkirk, Ypres and the V2 Rocket sites
Dover Castle, Underground Hospital and Dunkirk Control Centre

 

31st May – 3rd June

5 Days, 4 Nights

 

 

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

 

25th – 29th April

Normandy Beaches 64th Anniversary Tour
Operation Overlord

 

4th – 8th June

St Nazaire, Combined Operations Raid
and Normandy Beaches visit

 

24th – 28th July

Normandy Beaches Tour
Operation Overlord

 

4th – 8th September

64th Anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem
Arnhem, Nijmegen – A Bridge Too Far

 

18th – 22nd September

Battle of the Bulge
The Ardennes

 

25th – 29th September

Italian Campaign
Italy, Monte Cassino, Salerno and Anzio

 

25th – 29th September

6 Days, 5 Nights

 

 

Dambusters Raid and Colditz Castle
Led by Robert Owen, 'Official Historian 617 Squadron Aircrew Association'

 

7th – 12th August

7 Days, 6 Nights

 

 

Berlin Special

 

9th – 15th October

10 Days, 9 Nights

 

 

The Italian Campaign
Anzio, Monte Cassino, Salerno, Sangro River, Coriano Ridge, Gothic & Gustaf Lines and Lake Commachio.

 

25th September – 4th October

11 Days, 10 Nights

 

 

D-Day to Berlin
The fall of Nazi Germany

 

24th July – 3rd August

12 Days, 11 Nights

 

 

Great Escapes Tour
Holland, Germany, Poland – Arnhem, Belsen, Berlin, Zagan, Auschwitz, Dresden, Colditz Castle, Mohne Dam

 

16th – 27th August

 

 

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Specialised battlefield tours – 2008

 

 

3 Days, 2 Nights

 

 

Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Also visiting Stirling Castle, Loch Lomond and Gretna Green

 

1st – 3rd August

9 Days, 8 Nights

 

 

Gallipoli and the Dardanelles
Led by Dale Hjort

 

3rd – 11th May

Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour – tour 1
Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso, Spion Kop

 

16th – 24th January

Crimea War Battlefield Tour
Alma, Sevastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava and Yalta visit

 

7th – 15th May
7th – 15th September

11 Days, 10 Nights

 

 

The fall of Singapore
Bangkok, 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' and Death Railway

 

20th – 30th November

13 Days, 12 Nights

 

 

Russia tour, visiting Moscow, Stalingrad & Kursk

 

12th – 24th June

15 Days, 14 Nights

 

 

Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour – tour 2
Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift, Ladysmith, Colenso, Spioen Kop, Bloem, Fontein, Kimberley Belmont, Graspan, Orange River, Modder River, Magersfontein, Paarberg

 

15th – 29th October

Sieges, Tsars and Solovetski Island Gulag
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Solovetski Island Gulag

 

30th July – 13th August

 

 

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Bespoke battlefield tours

For many years we have taken along on tour our support vehicle to assist in the many Special Visits that are made on our standard tours to the various Battlefields around Europe. We have now extended this to include Bespoke Tours for small groups of between 2-6 persons in our luxury seven seat vehicle. The driver guide will be an experienced driver and battlefield tour guide. You will be issued with a personalized itinerary, information sheets and maps to assist you during your tour. For full details of these tours, please contact the office to discuss your plans. The vehicle is air conditioned with ample leg room, and will either collect you from your home or from a pre-arranged rendezvous point and transport you to your selected destination. For full details of these specialised tours please contact the office to discuss your plans.

Schools battlefield tours

Throughout the year we are organising World War 1 school tours.
Why not ask for our specialised brochure?

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