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Can't make a trip?
Want photographs of a Grave, Memorial or Battlefield site?
Contact Ian at the War Research Society Headquarters.
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 – Early Battles
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, 1st Ypres and Loos
23rd – 27th May
5 Days, 4 Nights
£450.00
On the first day there is an opportunity to make Special Visits on our way to our overnight hotel.
Over the next three days we cover the early battles around Neuve Chapelle, Port Arthur, Pont de Logis, The Moated Grange, Bois du Biez, Festubert, Aubers Ridge, with its impressive collection of Blockhouses, the Ypres Salient, Loos, the Hohenzolleren Redoubt, and Double Crassiers.
We will include War Walks through the battlefields and woods that featured in the battles of 1915, looking at the ground gained and lost. The battles will be brought alive by the in-depth knowledge of our guides. We also attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate on one of the evenings.
There will be opportunity to make Special Visits to any of the cemeteries in this area.
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World War 1 – Ypres Salient War Walk
Plugstreet, Polygon, Paschendaele and Pilkem
12th – 16th June
5 Days, 4 Nights
£450.00
This tour visits the Abeele Airdrome site en-route to our hotel.
The next day we visit Plugstreet Memorial to the Missing. From there we will go to Le Gheer where we start our walk, passing the Birdcage, the mine craters, the site of Bairnsfather's Cottage and the Christmas Truce site. We will make our way to La Petit Douve Farm, Messines Ridge, New Zealand Memorial and 'The Pool of Peace' at Spanbrookmolen. From here via Peckham Farm to Croonaert Wood and St. Eloi, ending the day at The Bluff. (A mix of walking and coaching.)
The next day sees us at Hill 60 where we make for Stirling Castle, Clapham Junction, Nonne Boschen, Black Watch Corner, Polygon Wood, the site of Celtic Wood, Tyne Cot and end the day at Gravenstafel. After our evening meal we pay a visit to the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.
On day four, we start at Gravenstafel and go via Vancouver Corner, Poelcapelle, Langemark, finishing at Pilkem. Returning to the hotel for our evening meal and farewell party.
On our final day we will visit Talbot House at Poperinghe, the home of Toc H, and the town Hall (and execution post), before making for the ferry home.
During this walk we will have regular stops and presentations about the battles at their actual sites. The walk will be done at an easy pace and back-up vehicles will be with us at all times, following the route, so you only need walk as much as you are able.
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World War 1 – Verdun and Somme
17th – 21st July
5 Days, 4 Nights
£445.00
This tour visits Vimy Ridge en-route to the Hotel. The following day we visit the Somme Battlefields, seeing Delville Wood, Thiepval, Lochnagar Memorial Crater and Albert before making our way south to Verdun. We visit the, now beautiful, quiet, countryside surrounding this ancient Citadel of France, now the World Peace Capital, and see for ourselves the terrible pounding that the French troops took throughout the First World War and in particular in 1916.
We visit the site of the huge German gun that fired the first shells on Verdun. See the German concrete village where engineers experimented with concrete for building their Blockhouses. We will visit Fort Vaux and see the Pidgeon Memorial, Fort Douamont, the destroyed villages, Bayonet Trench, the Ossuary containing some 130,000 remains, Verdun Memorial Museum, Colonel Driant's Headquarters, the Maginot Memorial, Mort Homme's Skeletal Memorial, Hill 304, the Butte de Vauquois and the Underground Citadel. We will also see where the French Unknown Soldier was chosen and where his comrades in death lie in the Cemetery. Visits will also be paid to Meuse-Argonne, the American Cemetery, Montfaucon Memorial and many other places of interest. Special Visits can be made during our stay.
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