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ANZAC Day Commemorations

Join us on a new tour looking at the ANZAC experience in the Somme and Flanders on the Western Front from the first shots fired near Fromelles to the last engagement at Montbrehain. We also attend the moving Dawn Service at Villers-Bretonneux on ANZAC Day.

Tour Includes

  • 6 nights' accommodation with continental breakfast
  • Specialist Battlefield Guide
  • Battlefield visits as described
  • Please note entrance fees to museums and places of interest are at extra cost
  • Convenient regional joining points
  • Travel by Silver Service coach

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Itinerary

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Local departure by coach, or Door-to-Door service then to our hotel in northern France for four nights.

The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) arrived in France in early 1916 and we look at their early experience of trench raiding before their first big battle at Fromelles in July 1916: one of Australia’s deadliest battles on the Western Front. Here we see the V.C. Corner Cemetery, the Australian Memorial Park and Cobbers Memorial, as well as the Fromelles Museum and Pheasant Wood Cemetery, discovering the story of the missing who were found many years after WWI. We have lunch in nearby Bethune and have time for special cemetery visits in this area.

Includes Breakfast

We have a very early start to attend the 6am Dawn Service at Villers-Bretonneux on the Somme battlefields. After a late breakfast enjoy some freetime in nearby Amiens, and in the afternoon we look at the AIF on the Somme in 1918 seeing the Australian Corps Memorial Park. We end the day at the superb Historial Museum at Peronne, which includes displays relating to Australian troops on the Somme.

Includes Breakfast

Today we look at the AIF in the fighting on the Somme in 1916. We visit Pozieres Cemetery, seeing the 1st Australian Division Memorial and Gibraltar Bunker, as well as the 2nd Australian Division Memorial at the Pozieres Windmill site. We then look at the AIF attacks on Mouquet Farm – ‘Moo-Cow Farm’ – seeing the memorial. After lunch in Albert we visit the Thiepval Visitors Centre and have time for special cemetery visits in the Somme area.

Includes Breakfast

We start the day at Bullecourt where the AIF assaulted the Hindenburg Line in April-May 1917. We see the museum as well as the memorial park before visiting the battlefield around Lagnicourt, and travelling to Queant Road Cemetery to hear the story of Jack White, found on the battlefield many years later. After lunch in Cambrai we see the AIF’s final battlegrounds at the St. Quentin canal and at Montbrehain. Continue to Belgium for two nights.

Includes Breakfast

The AIF spent much of 1917 fighting in Flanders and we look at their attack on Messines in June 1917 following the largest man-made explosion in history when 19 mines were blown under the German trenches. We see the battlefield and visitors centre in Messines. After lunch at Hooge we visit Polygon Wood taken by Australian troops and see the largest Commonwealth cemetery at Tyne Cot. We end the day at Ypres where we visit the In Flanders Fields Museum and attend the moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.

Includes Breakfast

Return home.

Includes Breakfast

Please note entrance fees to museums & places of interest are at extra cost.

Prices are per person, based on two sharing.

Extras: optional excursions; entrance fees to museums and places of interest; single room supplement £129; travel insurance from £44.95.


 

Accommodation

You will stay for four nights at a minimum 3-star hotel in the Lille area. You will then stay for two nights in Belgium in the Ypres/Menen/Mouscron area at a minimum 3-star hotel. All hotels will have a bar.
 

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