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BATTLEFIELD TOURS IN EUROPE OPERATED BY
LEGER HOLIDAYS

All Quiet on the Western Front 4 Days from £349

Departures Apr to
– The Somme and Flanders Sep 2021 and 2022

Day 1 Local departure by coach or Home of relics and stereoscopic photos. We then
Connect service, then to our hotel in Belgium or travel down the Messines Ridge to Ploegsteert
northern France for a three-night stay. to see the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing.
Our day ends in Ypres where we attend the
Day 2 Ypres and Passchendaele The tour moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate
starts around the Belgian city of Ypres. We
begin by looking at the commemoration of Memorial, held at 8pm each evening. B
Britain’s dead at Tyne Cot Cemetery, taking Day 3 The Somme We start our tour at
time to also see the visitors’ centre. At Peronne where we visit the Historial de la
Vancouver Corner we examine the use of gas Grande Guerre museum which helps to put
in the trenches and see the moving ‘Brooding into context not just our Somme day, but the
Soldier’ Memorial to the Canadians who whole tour. We then see the Lochnagar Mine
defended Ypres in 1915 and at Langemarck Crater at La Boisselle, the largest British mine
German Cemetery we see how Germany crater surviving on the battlefields. We see the
Tyne Cot Cemetery
commemorated her dead and look at the trenches in the Newfoundland Park and then
Includes story of ‘Fritz’ on the other side of No Man’s visit the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and
Land. We visit the preserved trenches at
• 3 nights hotel with continental breakfast Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum, some of the see the new Somme Museum here. B
• Specialist Battlefield Guide last original WW1 trenches still surviving in Day 4 Return home. B
• Key visits as described Flanders together with an amazing collection Included Meals: B=Breakfast
• Porterage at the hotel Tour Code: W4BWF
• Local joining points Apr 30 2021 £349 Apr 29 2022 £359
(see pages 4 & 5 for your nearest) May 28 2021 £369 May 27 2022 £379
YOUR HOTEL Aug 27 2021 £369 Aug 26 2022 £379
2022
£379
Sep 02
£369
2021
Sep 03
You will stay for three nights at a minimum Entrance to museums, places of interest and optional excursions
3-star hotel. are at extra cost.
Menin Gate Extras: single room supplement from £85.
D-Day Landings 5 Days from £429
in Normandy Departures May and
Jul 2021 and 2022
Day 1 Local departure by coach or Home memorial to the 29th Division. After lunch in St.
Connect service, then to Caen in Normandy for Mère Église, we then take a look at the story of
a four-night stay. the US Airborne forces at the Richard Winters
Leadership Memorial. At Utah Beach we follow
Day 2 Britain’s D-Day: Pegasus Bridge and the story of the successful landings and visit
British Beaches We start at Pegasus Bridge, the Utah Beach Museum. We then end the day
the scene of the first actions of D-Day, where
Airborne troops stormed the position from at the German Cemetery at La Cambe. B
gliders and held on until the linkup with ground Day 4 Battle of the Bocage: Falaise Gap We
forces from Sword Beach was made. We see start our look at the fighting beyond D-Day
where the gliders landed, take a visit to the in the bocage countryside south of Bayeux.
Pegasus Bridge Museum and see the Gondrée We examine the bloody battles for Tilly-sur-
Juno Beach Café. In Ranville we see the Airborne graves Seulles and the tough fighting at Fontenay-le-
and after lunch, proceed on to the British Pesnel. Driving through the so-called ‘Scottish
Includes landing beaches, starting at Sword Beach. At Corridor’ over the River Odon, we visit Hill
• 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast Juno Beach we visit the Juno Beach Centre, 112 with its Churchill Tank Memorial. Lunch
• Specialist Battlefield Guide and at Gold Beach, see where some of the in Falaise, followed by a visit to the Falaise
• Key visits as described heaviest casualties were suffered by British Pocket and a short walk along the ‘Corridor
of Death’. On Mont Ormel we visit the Polish
troops storming the tough defences at Asnelles.
• Porterage at the hotel We end the day at Arromanches where the Memorial to their ferocious battle and end the
• Local joining points Mulberry Harbour was constructed. B day by seeing a very rare original Tiger I tank
(see pages 4 & 5 for your nearest) at Vimoutiers. B
Day 3 America’s D-Day: Bloody Omaha and
YOUR HOTEL American Airborne Today we hear the story Day 5 Return home. B
You will stay for four nights at a minimum of ‘Bloody Omaha’ and the terrible American Included Meals: B=Breakfast
3-star hotel. sacrifice on D-Day. Uncover the real story with
a visit to the Normandy American Cemetery, Tour Code: W5FDN
Entrance to museums, places of interest and optional excursions the Overlord Museum and Omaha Beach
are at extra cost. May 24 2021 £429 May 23 2022 £449
Extras: single room supplement from £119. where the landings took place, seeing the Jul 05 2021 £439 Jul 04 2022 £459
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