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Four days without fault.
A big thank you for a wonderful weekend in France and showing me where my great uncle fought.
I really appreciated the way in which the tour accommodated people’s personal interests.
We really think the War Research Society is brilliant.
World War 1 Battlefield Tours – 2008 (cont.)
The tour list gives the full index of all of our battlefield tours, pilgrimage tours and war graves tours for both World War 1, World War 2 and other notable battles and conflicts. Expanded details of all battlefield tours are also available in our brochure, contact us for a copy.
World War 1 – Somme and Ypres Battlefield Tour
2nd – 5th May
4 Days, 3 Nights
£399.00
This tour takes us into the heart of the Somme and Ypres battlefields, discovering the stories of the valour of the ordinary soldier fighting against great odds. Terry Webb leads the tour, explaining the logistical supply and communication problems and the, sometimes great, distances covered by the troops before the battles started. On day one we cross from Dover to Calais and travel south to St. Omer to see the Air Services Memorial before traveling on to our hotel in the Cambrai area.
Day 2 sees us traveling up into Belgium where we visit the Ypres Salient, Messines Ridge and the trench systems and fortifications in Croonaert Wood. We travel along the Menin Road, and pay a visit to the Dugout Experience Museum in Zonnebeke, before visiting Tyne Cot, Vancouver Corner, Langemark, Pilkem Ridge and many other places of interest on the battlefield. In Ypres we attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.
Day 3 sees us on the infamous Somme battlefields where we traverse the entire front line of the 1st July 1916, from Hebuterne to Maricourt, visiting Sheffield Memorial Park Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Albert, Lochnagar Memorial Crater, Mametz Wood, and Delville Wood.
On the final day
we travel back to UK, visiting Vimy Ridge Canadian Memoria and the tunnel systems under the ridge en-route.
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World War 1 – 92nd Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and Ypres visit
30th June – 3rd July
4 Days, 3 Nights
£399.00
On this battle tour we will attend the Service of Remembrance at Lochnagar
Memorial Crater on the 1st July, with the Friends of Lochnagar and the
Official Service at Thiepval, under the auspices of the Royal British
Legion. The trip will include a full tour of the fields of conflict with
visits to Mametz Wood, Delville Wood (Devil's Wood), the South African
Memorial and Museum, High Wood, Beaumont Hamel, Serre, Albert, Fricourt
and Pozieres.
We will also spend a full day in the Ypres Salient,
visiting the Menin Gate (attending the Last Post Ceremony at 8.00 pm),
Tyne Cot, Passchendaele, Langemark, Vancouver Corner, Pilkem Ridge, Essex
Farm, Ploegsteert, Messines Ridge, the Cloth Hall, St George's Chapel
and many other places of interest.
Special Visits will be undertaken en route to
and from the Hotel and as requested en route home on last day.
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World War 1 –
Battles for the Woods
The attack on Mametz Wood, Delville Wood and High
Wood
11th – 14th July
4 Days, 3 Nights
£399.00
A truly memorable tour with visits to the Somme Battlefields. On this trip we cover the attacks on Mametz Wood by the 38th Welsh Division, using the trench maps used by RSM Charles Alexander of the 14th Welsh Regiment on the 10th July 1916, when he was severely wounded. We will walk the ground, following the attack through the 'Valley of Death', down from White Trench, across the open ground and into Mametz Wood.
Here we visit the grave of veteran Harry Fellows, buried in the wood, where we have a short Service of Remembrance. After which we contine to follow the attack on High Wood, brilliantly described in 'The Hell They Called High Wood' by the late Terry Norman, using his original maps to bring the battle alive.
From here we continue to the village of Longueval and the scene of the Battle for Delville Wood, with the 9th Scottish Division including the South African’s, so graphically described by Ian Uys in 'Delville Wood and Rollcall'.
The walk will take place over two days, at a fine gentle pace with rest stops en route where explanations will be given at specific points.
We also visit the battlefields around La Boisselle,
Thiepval and Beaumont Hamel.
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World War 1 –
Advance to Victory – 90th Anniversary Tour
Villers Bretonneux and Mons; 8th August 1918, the last 100 days of the war
8th - 11th August
4 Days, 3 Nights
£399.00
This battle tour visits the Loos Battlefield and Memorial on route to our hotel. The next day the tour starts at the site of the front line trenches in Villers Bretonneux. Here we cover the action of the first tank versus tank battle, the Australian and American Forces at the Battle of Le Hamel, and the Big Push of the 8th August 1918 (The Blackest Day in the History of the German Army).
Following the route of the allied army, we walk and talk our way through the battle of Morlancourt Ridge, the Battle of Albert, Mont St. Quentin, the Hindenburg Line, Cambrai, Sambre Canal and all the way through to Mons.
This tour will take you through the historical countryside of the 1918 battlefield in which our guides will ‘bring alive’ the battles and encounters. There will be opportunities to make Special Visits in all the areas mentioned should you so wish.
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