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BATTLEFIELD TOURS IN EUROPE OPERATED BY
LEGER HOLIDAYS

All Quiet on the Western Front

Witness the major WW1 battlefields of Flanders and France on 4 or 5 Days from £349
this ideal introductory battlefield tour visiting Ypres, The Somme Departures
and Menin Gate. Apr to Oct 2021

Thiepval Memorial

Tyne Cot Cemetery Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum
KEY VISITS Day 1 Local departure by coach or Home Quarries, going underground to see where
• Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Connect service, then to our hotel in Belgium or thousands sheltered on the eve of battle. At
northern France for a three or four-night stay. the Arras Memorial we pay our respects to the
• The excellent Historial de la Missing and see the Air Services Memorial to
Grande Guerre museum Day 2 Ypres and Passchendaele The tour those who died above the battlefields in WW1
Includes starts around the Belgian city of Ypres. We and end our day with a visit to the Vimy Ridge
begin by looking at the commemoration of
• 3 or 4 nights hotel with continental Britain’s dead at Tyne Cot Cemetery, taking Memorial at Hill 145 to examine the attach by
breakfast time to also see the visitors’ centre. At Canadian forces here in April 1917. B
• Specialist Battlefield Guide Vancouver Corner we examine the use of gas Day 3 (4-day break) or Day 4 (5-day break)
• Key visits as described in the trenches and see the moving ‘Brooding The Somme We start our tour at Peronne
where we visit the Historial de la Grande
Soldier’ Memorial to the Canadians who
• Porterage at the hotel
defended Ypres in 1915 and at Langemarck Guerre museum which helps to put into context
• Local joining points German Cemetery we see how Germany not just our Somme day, but the whole tour.
(see pages 6 & 7 for your nearest) commemorated her dead and look at the We then see the Lochnagar Mine Crater at
YOUR HOTEL story of ‘Fritz’ on the other side of No Man’s La Boisselle, the largest British mine crater
surviving on the battlefields. We see the
Land. We visit the preserved trenches at
You will stay for three or four nights at a Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum, some of the trenches in the Newfoundland Park and then
minimum 3-star hotel. last original WW1 trenches still surviving in visit the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and
Flanders together with an amazing collection see the new Somme Museum here. B
of relics and stereoscopic photos. We then
travel down the Messines Ridge to Ploegsteert Day 4 (4-day break) or Day 5 (5-day break)
to see the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. Return home. B
Our day ends in Ypres where we attend the Included Meals: B=Breakfast
moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate
Memorial, held at 8pm each evening. B 4-DAY BREAK:
Day 3 (5-day break) Arras and Vimy Ridge Tour Code: W4BWF
We spend today in northern France visiting Apr 30 2021 £349 Aug 27 2021 £369
the ‘Forgotten Front’ between Flanders and May 28 2021 £369 Sep 3 2021 £369
the Somme. Starting on the Loos Battlefield,
visiting the Loos Memorial and Dud Corner 5-DAY BREAK:
Menin Gate Cemetery. We then visit the new Lens 14-18 Tour Code: W5BWF
Museum which explains the rich history of
Entrance to museums, places of interest and ptional excursions this region. After lunch in Arras we look at life Apr 26 2021 £439 Aug 23 2021 £449
are at extra cost. May 24 2021 £449 Sep 27 2021 £449
Extras: single room supplement from £85 (4-days), £115 (5-days). beneath the Western Front in the Wellington Jul 12 2021 £449 Oct 11 2021 £439
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