Passchendaele 105th Anniversary

Join us in 2022 as we commemorate the 105th Anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, popularly known as the Battle of Passchendaele. Beginning on 31st July 1917, the battle raged through the next four months as summer turned to winter, and became the scene of over 300,000 British Army casualties. We will learn more about one of the most iconic battles of WW1 as we visit key sites and memorials in the company of a Specialist Guide, before having our own Remembrance Service at Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial.

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3 nights hotel with continental breakfast
Specialist Battlefields Guide
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Local departure by coach, then to Belgium or northern France for a three-night stay.

Today we look at the opening stage of the Third Battle of Ypres, visiting the key locations connected with the fighting on 31st July 1917. At Boesinghe, we see where the Guards Division and men from the 38th (Welsh) Division fought their battle, seeing Artillery Wood Cemetery, the Welsh Memorial, and Cement House Cemetery, and then look at the fighting around Langemarck including a visit to the Harry Patch Memorial and the memorials at Poelcapelle.

After lunch at Hooge, we look at the Battle for St Julien, seeing Buffs Road Cemetery, and the fighting across the Frezenberg and Bellewaarde Ridges in 1917.

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Cement House Cemetery Welsh Memorial Hooge Crater Cafe Harry Patch Memorial Buffs Road Cemetery Poelcapelle Memorials Artillery Wood Cemetery Langemarck Battlefields

Today is the 105th Anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres. We start the day with our own Commemorative Service of Remembrance at Tyne Cot Cemetery. We then travel to Passchendaele village seeing where the final assaults on the village by British and Commonwealth soldiers took place, including the Canadian Memorial at Crest Farm. following lunch at Hooge crater café we travel to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele at Zonnebeke, where we see a museum that focuses on the Third Battle of Ypres and has a reconstructed Trench System and WW1 Dugout. We then look at the Battle for Polygon Wood in September 1917, visiting the memorials and cemeteries. We finish the day with time in Ypres where we will attend a special Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.

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Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial Memorial Museum Passchendaele Hooge Museum Last Post Ceremony Crest Farm Canadian Memorial Passchendaele Commemorations

Return home.

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Accommodation

You will stay for three nights at a minimum 3-star hotel in northern France or Belgium.

You can alternatively choose to stay in central Ypres, just a few hundred yards from the Menin Gate at the 3-star Novotel Ypres Centrum. The hotel has a lift, bar and restaurant.