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Battlefield tours

We know the battlefields of France and Flanders intimately. Having walked the ground and arranged and led tours the length and breadth of the front, we can not only show you the popular tourist sites but the hidden, little known, spots too.

We do not arrange package tours. Instead, we assemble for you an itinerary for a tour that will become a long-lasting memory. We accompany you and your party on that tour and lead you through the experience, if you wish. Finally, we can assist in making all the necessary travel and accommodation arrangements. You can use our transport or yours. It is all absolutely bespoke to your needs.

Perhaps you would like to follow in the footsteps of a soldier that we have researched for you. Maybe you would like a more general education into trench warfare and see the sights. Possibly you would like to see where men from your town fought in a famous battle. We’ll discuss with you your precise interests and requirements and put it all together for you.

Ideas

As a thought starter, here is a list of “titles” for battlefield tours we have conducted. Generally, they were of 3-5 days duration, but there is no limit either way. We would be pleased to help assemble one of these tours for you, or design any other itinerary you like:

• From Mons to the Marne: the Old Contemptibles in 1914
• The Ypres Salient
• Somme 1916
• The Australians at Fromelles
• Nineteen great mines: Messines, June 1917
• Following the tracks of the poets and artists
• The Battle of Loos
• “Kaiserschlacht”: the German Spring offensive of 1918
• Deeds that won the Empire: tales of the Victoria Cross winners
• In the footsteps of the lads of Little Birch
• Tank warfare: Flers, Cambrai and Amiens
• Canadians at war: Mount Sorrel, Vimy Ridge and Hill 70
• From the Christmas Truce to Neuve Chapelle
• Victorious advances in the “Hundred Days” of 1918
• Pershing’s Doughboys at war
• The Belgian coast and the Battle of the Yser
• Ils ne passeront pas: the battlefields of Verdun
• Arras and Bullecourt: the Hindenburg Line 1917

Got a party going and would like a guide?

Perhaps you have already organised a trip. All sorts of organisations, from schools, workplaces, clubs and societies do this. We would be happy to accompany you and provide on-the-ground guidance and expertise.

Our guides

We can provide a suitable guide for whichever tour and date you wish to undertake. Often this will be Chris Baker but depending on the subject and area to be visited we can often tap into our network for that perfect guide for you .

Interested?

If you have an idea of what you would like to do, just email for a discussion (click on image):