Battlefield tours

• Introduction
• Gallipoli
• Western Front
• Booking information

Western Front Battlefield Tour

There will be two tours to the Western Front commencing on different dates, and a joint Gallipoli and Western Front tour.
You can choose to:

• attend the official Australian ANZAC Day activities at Villers-Bretonneux including the ceremony at the Australian National Memorial on the Western Front "Gold" Tour
• extend your Gallipoli tour with visits to the battlefields in France and Belgium on the Western Front "Green" Tour
• tour both Gallipoli and the Western Front battlefields on the Gallipoli in Depth & Western Front Tour

Your guide will be one of the Memorial's historians.

Our tours to the Western Front have operated since 1993 and are a commemorative and educational journey into an important part of our nation’s history and, for many, a personal pilgrimage. They combine these opportunities with visits to famous cultural sites and many fascinating places not found on the usual tourist routes.

Commencing in Paris and ending in London, the Western Front tour takes you along the old front line once well known to the diggers throughout 1916-18. There are the places of great triumph and tragedy, such as Pozieres, Bullecourt, Fromelles, Ypres, Villers-Bretonneux, and Peronne. Looking with your guide at the battlefields, memorials and war cemeteries, the Australians’ stories unfold. There are also the former ‘back areas’ appearing much as they did when the Australians were billeted and rested there. You will meet local French people to whom the memory of the diggers remains strong.

The Western Front tour visits the many battlegrounds, historic sites, and important monuments, throughout the Somme, Arras and Flanders. It includes Paris, London and Brugges for sight-seeing, shopping and restaurants. You travel between France and Britain on the Eurostar high-speed train, and in London visit Horseferry Road, where AIF Headquarters was located, and the Imperial War Museum.

Highlights

• Normandy
• Amiens
• Pozières
• Bullecourt
• Villers-Bretonneux
• Fromelles
• Ypres
• Participate in Menin Gate ceremony
• Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne
• Paris
• Imperial War Museum, London

Tour itineraries

• Western Front "Gold" tour 20 April – 1 May 2012
• Western Front "Green" tour 28 April - 9 May 2012
• Gallipoli in Depth and Western Front Tour 17 April - 9 May 2012

For bookings and more information

Boronia Travel Centre
Telephone: 1800 035 350 (Free call)
Email: battlefieldtours@boroniatravel.com.au
Fax: (03) 9762 9752

AWM Battlefield Tours
PO Box 22
BORONIA VIC 3155

Boronia Travel Centre web site