Battlefield tours

Western Front Battlefield Tour

Polygon Wood Polygon Wood

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:

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 and Brugges for sight-seeing, shopping and restaurants.

Highlights

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

Tour itineraries

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