SOMME & YPRES

16th – 20th May £350

28th June – 2nd July £350
(Anniversary Service at Thiepval)

11th - 14th September £283.00
(4Days / 3 Nights)

7th -11th November £350
(Armistice Service at Ypres)

We journey to Dover with Pick-ups en route to catch the ferry to Calais. Traveling through France we visit requested Cemeteries en route to our Hotel. A visit will be made during the trip to the beautiful Canadian Memorial and Battlefield Park at Vimy Ridge. It is our aim to visit as many places of interest listed in our Brochure as is possible within the constraints of time and traffic conditions after having fulfilled our obligations to visit agreed requested Cemeteries.

Ypres: Visit the Ypres Salient from Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing. Drive along the Messines Ridge following the line of the 19 Mine explosions to Hill 60. Hellfire corner to Sanctuary Wood with preserved trenches and Museum, drive along the infamous Menin Road through Gheluvelt immortalised by the heroic stand by the Worcestershire Regiment, on to Passchendaele and Tyne Cot Cemetery (largest British War Cemetery). Langemark German Cemetery, Vancouver Corner scene of the first gas attack and Essex Farm where that famous first World War poem " In Flanders Fields " was composed by John Macrae.
Spend time in the Town of Ypres with its famous Cloth Hall and Saint George's Chapel. Witness the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing.

Somme: Visit the Somme Battlefields . We drive along the area of the old front line from Newfoundland Park in the North with its preserved trenches and Memorials, Thiepval with its imposing Memorial to the Missing, Blighty, Mash and Sausage Valleys visiting the huge Lochnagar Mine Crater at La Boiselle, exploded 7.28am on 1 July 1916, heralding the start of the first day of the Battles of the Somme. We visit Fricourt, site of the triple tambour mines, and the Horseshoe of Woods,Trones, Mametz, Bernefay, High Woods and the South African Museum at Delville Wood. Pozieres and other places of interest will also be visited such as the Town of Albert with its Basilica and Golden Virgin.

An unforgettable experience to be taken back in time.

Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

BERLIN & NORDHAUSEN

Dambuster Raid, Colditz & Belsen

28th September – 5th October

(8 Days/7 Nights) Price £600.

MOHNE and EDER DAMS: An opportunity to visit the impressive dams and appreciate the skill and daring of the air crews on this mission in 1943. The dams were breached by the famous bouncing bombs (the invention of Barnes Wallis) and dropped by 617 Squadron led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson.
Gibson won the VC for his leadership and there were a further 33 decorations awarded to other aircrew.

An original 'bouncing' bomb

COLDITZ CASTLE– Oflag 1Vc overlooking the river Mulde was a prison camp for Officers who had made at least one failed escape attempt during the war. We take a guided tour around the Castle with a visit to the Castle Museum, where many articles used in escape attempts are on display.

TOUR NOW FULLY BOOKED

If you wish to be placed on a reserved list in case of cancellations please contact the organizers.

64TH anniversary D-Day

NORMANDY BEACHES " THE LONGEST DAY " Operation Overlord

4th -8th June

Price £364

Codenamed ' Operation Overlord ' the D Day Landings of June 6 1944 were the mightiest invasion in History. The objective; to breach Hitler's supposed impregnable Atlantic wall and open up a second front. The Landings proved to be the key that unlocked the door to Fortress Europe and ultimate victory by the allied armies. The many Cemeteries in Normandy testify to the ferocity of the fighting that took place at the time.

Juno Beach Pegasus Bridge

Based in Caen we visit Pegasus Bridge, the Cafe Gondree (historically remembered as the first house freed from Nazi occupation). We drive along the Sea front ( Memorial way )to view the Landing Beaches, Gold, Juno, and Sword. We visit the Longues Battery and the Museum at Arromanches where the remnants of the Mulberry harbour can still be seen. The American Cemetery and Beach at Omaha are visited as well as St Mere Eglise, immortalised by the late John Steele whose parachute caught in the Church Steeple and Pointe du Hoc American Ranger Memorial. The recently uncovered German underground fortress complex near Omaha, Bayeux CWG Cemetery and Military Museum are also visited. The trip is based around visits to requested Cemeteries and as many places as possible will be visited time and traffic conditions permitting.

Come and see for yourself where history was made

ARNHEM & NIJMEGEN

" Operation Market Garden " ~ A Bridge too Far

19th – 23rd September
Price £364

In September 1944 Operation Market Garden took place when the allied airborne army landed deep in Holland in an attempt to end the war by Christmas. This daring Airborne landing by British, American and Polish troops only failed after a heroic nine day stand which captured the imagination of the world.

We visit Ginkel Heath, one of the Dropping and Landing Zones during the Battle. We trace the route taken by someof the 1st British Airborne troops to the famous Bridge at Arnhem, now known as the John Frost Bridge in recognition of his leadership.

We visit the Church which saw the withdrawal of survivors across the river, the house of the angel of Arnhem, Kate Ter Horst, who tended the wounded and whose garden became a burial ground and the site where L/Sgt. Baskeyfield won his VC.

We visit the Hartenstein Airborne Museum ( Major General Urquhart's HQ during the battle), the Wolfheze road junction where General Kussin's car was shot up, Groesbeek Heights and the beautiful Liberation Museum. Oosterbeek British Military Cemetery is visited for the special Service of Remembrance where the children of Arnhem lay flowers on each grave. Three recipients of the VC awarded for their part in the Battle are buried here. Reichswaldand Rheinberg Cemeteries near Kleve, Germany, can also be included. Other places of interest will be visited time permitting.