 Spring Somme Walking Tour |
| Zeebrugge and the Belgian Coast |
| The Dambusters |
| Normandy |
| 1st July Somme Anniversary Tour |
| The Ypres Salient |
| The Hindenburg Line |
| Loos and the 1915 Battlefields |
| The Doughboys |
| Spring Somme Walking Tour |
| Zeebrugge and the Belgian Coast |
| The Dambusters |
| Normandy |
| 1st July Somme Anniversary Tour |
| The Ypres Salient |
| The Hindenburg Line |
| Loos and the 1915 Battlefields |
| The Doughboys |
Monday 7th to Thursday 10th April, 2008
This is my well established walk along tracks and over fields, mainly along the 'Old Front Line' from Serre to Marricourt, following the events of the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. We will also follow some of the later actions of the battle as time permits.
The tour will be based at the 3-star Hotel Moderne, Arras.
PRICE: £285 Monday 21st to Thursday 24th April, 2008
PRICE: £285 Wednesday 14th to Monday 19th May, 2008
PRICE: £575 Wednesday 4th to Sunday 8th June, 2008
PRICE: £390 Saturday 28th June to Wednesday 2nd July, 2008
PRICE: £390 Monday 21st to Thursday 24th July, 2008
PRICE: £285 Monday 8th to Thursday 11th September, 2008
PRICE: £285 Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th September, 2008
PRICE: £285 Monday 6th to Saturday 11th October, 2008
PRICE: £390
Zeebrugge and the Belgian Coast
Special tour to coincide with the 90th Anniversary of the Zeebrugge Raid of 23rd April 1918, when Royal Marines stormed the Mole in support of an attempt to block the Brugge Canal, with attendance at any commemorative events that may be organised. The remainder of the tour will include visits to sites of interest, memorials and cemeteries along the coastal strip and inland as far as Diksmuide, the Belgian held sector of the Western Front.
The tour will be based at the 2-star Hotel De Vrede, Diksmuide
The Dambusters
Spend a day looking at 617 Squadron’s Lincolnshire connections before travelling to the Ruhr Valley, Germany, to visit the three primary targets attacked during this most famous Bomber Command action. Visits to the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery and Steenbergen will be included in the tour.
Two overnight ferry crossings on the Hull to Rotterdam route with cabin accommodation, dinner and breakfast each way, and three nights at the 3-star Hotel Puester, Warstein-Allagen, Germany.
Normandy
This tour will include aspects of both the British and American D-Day beaches, together with visits to many of the cemeteries and memorials in the area. We will also attend the 6th June Memorial Service at the Bayeux War Cemetery.
The tour will be based at the 2-star Hotel Saint Aubin, on the sea-front in Saint Aubin sur Mer, at the eastern end of Juno Beach where the Canadians landed on D-Day.
1st July Somme Anniversary Tour
Two and a half days will be spent on a detailed study of the 1916 Battlefield, visiting such places as the surviving trenches at Serre, the Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel, the Thiepval Memorial to the 73,000 who died on the Somme and have no known grave, the Lochnagar Crater and Delville Wood, along with other sites, cemeteries and memorials. On the 1st July we will attend the 7:30 a.m. 'Zero Hour' ceremony at the Lochnagar Crater and then the mid-morning service of remembrance at the Thiepval Memorial.
The tour will be based at the 3-star Hotel Moderne, Arras.
The Ypres Salient
This tour will visit many of the major sites in the Ypres Salient, including Essex Farm, Passchendaele, Hill 60, Tyne Cot Cemetery, the Canadian Memorial at Hill 62 and the Messines Ridge with its craters, as well as attending the moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate, Ypres.
The tour will be based at the 2-star Hotel De Vrede, Diksmuide
The Hindenburg Line
The Hindenburg Line, the German defence system constructed at the end of 1916 and occupied in the spring of 1917, stretched from Arras in the north to beyond St Quentin in the south. Our tour will study the construction and strategy of the line; the battles of 1917, the German Spring Offensive in 1918 and the final battles to breach the line in the last months of the war.
The tour will be based at the 3-star Hotel Moderne, Arras.
Loos and the 1915 Battlefields
Our tour will begin with a look at the 1915 French actions in the Artois region. Visits will then be made to the British 1915 battlefields at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Festubert with time to visit cemeteries and memorials associated with those actions. We will also spend some time following the 1916 Australian action at Fromelles. A full day, the 25th September, will be spent on the Loos battlefield with visits to Dud Corner Memorial to the Missing and other associated sites and cemeteries.
The tour will be based at the 3-star Hotel Moderne, Arras.
The Doughboys
New for 2008, my tour to the areas of the Western Front when the American Expeditionary Force saw action will concentrate on the Chateau-Thierry and Meuse-Argonne sectors with visits to sites of interest, memorials and cemeteries within those areas. We shall also visit the railway carriage at Compiegne where the armistice was signed in November 1918.
The tour will be based at the 3-star Hotel Le Renard, Chalons en Champagne.
