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Battlefield Tours,
The War Research Society,
27 Courtway Avenue,
Birmingham
B14 4PP
England

Tel: 0121 430 5348
Fax: 0121 436 7401

 

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2011 Battlefield tours – tour list


Battlefield and memorial tours planned for 2011.

Register early to avoid disappointment!
For our current tours follow this link.

 

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

 

World War 1 Battlefield Tours   2011 Dates
3 Days, 2 Nights

 

 

Somme and Ypres

 

18th–20th March
Somme and Ypres   8th–10th April
Ypres and Somme   15th–17th April
Somme Anniversary   30th June – 2nd July
Somme and Ypres   7th–9th October
Armistice Ypres 93rd Anniversary   10th–12th November
Armistice at Thiepval 93rd Anniversary   10th–12th November
4 Days, 3 Nights  
Battle of Arras: Led by Jonathan Nicholls
  9th–12th April
Somme and Ypres   6th–9th May
Somme Anniversay/Ypres   30th June – 3rd July
Battles for the Woods   15th–18th July
Front Line War Walk Somme   19th–22nd August
Plugstreet and Somme   14th–17th October
Armistice in Ypres 93rd Anniversary   9th–12th November
Armistice at Thiepval 93rd Anniversary

 

9th–12th November
5 Days, 4 Nights  
Early Battles tour: Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Fromelles, Ypres
  20th–24th May
Ypres Salient War Walk   10th–14th June
6 Days, 5 Nights
   
Mons the First and Last Shots and Marne   27th August – 1st Sept
7 Days, 6 Nights
   
United States Forces in the Great War
  12th–18th May
Northen Italy campaign: Asiago, Isonzo Caporetto
  25th Sep – 1st October
9 Days, 8 Nights
   
Gallipoli and Troy   1st–9th May
   
World War 2 battlefield tours   2011 Dates
5 Days, 4 Nights    
Dunkirk 71st Anniversary and Ypres Visit
  28th May – 1st June
The Cockleshell Heroes Tour   14th–18th April
Normandy Beaches Anniversary Tour   4th–8th June
St. Nazaire and Normandy   21th–25th July
Normandy Beaches   1st–5th September
A Bridge Too Far: Arnhem/Nijmegen Anniversary Tour   15th–19th September
Italy, Monte Cassino, Salerno, Anzio   22nd–26th September
6 Days, 5 Nights
   
Dambusters Raid and Colditz Castle   4th–9th August
7 Days, 6 Nights
 
Berlin Special   6th–12th October
8 Days, 7 Nights    
Egypt: Cairo, El Alamein, Halfaya Pass, Alexandria, Mersah Matruh
  25th March – 1st April
Libya, Tripoli, Benghazi, Tobruk: (Visa Required)   18th–25th May
Norway Operation Freshman: Commando Raid on the Heavy Water Plant, Telemark   3rd–10th June
Finland, The Winter War   2nd–9th April
9 Days, 8 Nights    
Tunisia, Battlefield and Pilgrimage tour   21st–29th October
10 Days, 9 Nights  
The Italian Campaign: Monte Cassino, Anzio, Salerno, Gothic and Gustaf Lines   22nd Sept – 1st Oct
11 Days, 10 Nights    
D Day to Berlin: the Northwest Europe Campaign   8th–18th July
Bridge on the River Kwai and Singapore   20th–30th November
12 Days, 11 Nights    
Great Escapes Tour: Holland, Germany, Poland   13th–24th August
13 Days, 12 Nights    
Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk: (Visa Required)   11th–23rd June

 

 

Specialised battlefield tours

 

2011 Dates

9 Days, 8 Nights

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour 1
Rorkes Drift, Isandlwana, Spioen Kop, Ladysmith, Breaker Morant Country, The Bushveld Carbineers Tour

 

 

19th–27th January

1st–9th February

CRIMEA: Crimea War Battlefield Tours
Alma, Sevastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava, Yalta and the Charge of the Light Brigade

 

 

7th–15th May
3rd–11th September

15 Days, 14 Nights

 

 
SOUTH AFRICA: Zulu and Boer War Battlefield Tour 2
Rorkes Drift, Isandlwana, Ladysmith, Spioen Kop, Colenso, Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Belmont, Orange River
  16th–30th October
RUSSIA: Sieges, Tzars and Solovetski Island Gulag
(Visa Required) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Solovetski-Archangel

 

21st July – 4th Aug