2day Australian WW1 battlefield tour in Flanders the Somme from Lille and Arras

2day Australian WW1 battlefield tour in Flanders the Somme from Lille and Arras

The first day you will stand in Fromelles, visit the museum and the Pheasant Wood cemetery, go to VC Corner Cemetery and the Australian Memorial Park. You will see one of the mine craters of Messines, Hill 60, Polygoon Wood and Tyne Cot Cy. in Passendale. That night you will attend the Last Post at the Menin Gate in Ypres.

The second day will put the focus on the Somme, Villers Bretonneux, the Memorial, Le Hamel where General Monash will use new tactics and Pozières and its Windmill and Moo Cow Farm.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, Rue de la Basse Ville, 59249 Fromelles France

You will stand near the Pheasant Wood see where the 250 soldiers were buried, stand in the newly built cemetery and visit the museum.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Australian Memorial Park, Rue delval, Fromelles France

You will see the German and Australian lines, no man's land and the statue called "the Cobbers"

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: VC Corner Australian Cemetery, 91 rue Delval Next to the Australian Memorial Park, 59249 Fromelles France

You will stand in this exclusive Australian cemetery in France.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Messines Ridge, N314, Mesen 8957 Belgium

You will see Messines captures by Australian, New Zealand, British and Irish troops in June 1917.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Hill 60, Zwarteleenstraat 36-40, Ieper (Ypres) 8902 Belgium

You will walk on the hill, see the Caterpillar Crater and the meomorial dedicated to the 1st Australian Tunneling Cy.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Polygon Wood Cemetery, 8980 Zonnebeke, Belgium

You will see the memorial to the 5th Australian Division, the New Zealand Memorial and the cemetery. This is also the place wher the Dawn Service is held on ANZAC Day

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Berten Pilstraat 5a, 8980 Zonnebeke, Belgium

You will spend an hour in the very best WW1 museum.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Tynecotstraat, Zonnebeke 8980 Belgium

This is the CWGC's largets cemetery.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Ypres Cloth Hall, Grote Markt 34, Ieper (Ypres) 8900 Belgium

You will see the main square, the cloth hall and some of the nice buildings in Ypres

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Menin Gate Memorial, Menenstraat Poort gebouw, Ieper (Ypres) 8900 Belgium

You will stand under the gate to participate at the Last Post before heading back to your hotel.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: École Victoria, 9 Rue Victoria, 80800 Villers-Bretonneux, France

You will stand near the school rebuilt with the help of Australian school childeren.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Australian National Memorial, route de Villers Bretonneux D23, 80800 Fouilloy France

You will stand at the Memorial and go up in the tour to have a stunning view on the surrounding battlefields.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Australian Corps Memorial, 80800 Le Hamel France

You will stand on the German lines and will see from where Sir John Monash launched his troops on 4 July 1918.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Lochnagar Crater, Route de la Grande Mine, 80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle France

You will see the crater, it is the result of an underground explosion triggered on 1 July 1916.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Pozieres Memorial, 80300 Pozieres France

You will see the meorial to the 1st Australian Division, the Moo Cow Farm Memorial and the Windmill before heading back to your hotel.

Duration: 2 hours