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Armistice Day 2017 - Passchendaele Special

Join the annual commemoration of Armistice Day on the battlefields of Belgium at Ypres. We attend the Last Post Ceremony on 11 November and also take trips out to the battlefield areas of Passchendaele to commemorate the centenary of the end of the battle.

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3 nights hotel with continental breakfast
Specialist Battlefield Guide
Regional joining points
Travel by executive coach or upgrade to Silver Service or Luxuria

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Regional departure by coach, then to our hotel in Belgium or northern France, where we stay for three nights.

We start today looking at the battles of Passchendaele. We will be visiting Passchendaele Village and seeing the memorial in the church, as well as the Canadian Memorial site at Crest Farm. From here we continue onto the Passchendaele New British Cemetery which now contains 2,101 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,600 of the graves are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualties believed to be buried among them. Then we make our way to Hooge Crater to take lunch and visit the museum which is set in a post-war chapel just across from the Hooge Cemetery. In the afternoon, we see Polygon Wood near to Zonnebeke village. Polygon Wood was totally destroyed and replanted after the war. We then travel to Tyne Cot, the largest British cemetery in the world. Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and John Reginald Truelove and they wished it to appear as a huge well-ordered English churchyard with its yews and cedar tree behind the great flint wall. Tyne Cot Cemetery has more than 11,900 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated with more than 8,370 of the burials are unidentified, plus 35,000 on the Memorial. Then we make our way to Ypres centre to see the very moving Last Post service which has been performed every evening at 8pm since 1928 by the Belgian people in appreciation of the men that gave their lives in the Great War ‘in defence of Ypres’. The service is held at Menin Gate, which bears the name of 54,896 soldiers who fell in the Ypres Salient before 16 August 1917 and who have no known grave. After the Last Post, we make our way back to the hotel. *Please note the order of your visits may vary due to the number of coaches on this tour.

Includes Breakfast

Today is Armistice Day and we have an early start to travel to Ypres to attend the commemorations. You can watch or take part in the veterans parade from near St Martin’s Cathedral through to the main square, or wait at the Menin Gate to see the special Last Post Ceremony at 11.00am. You then have free-time in Ypres; in the afternoon where you can visit the Cloth Hall which was restored after the war due to battle damage and is now the In Flanders Field museum, or join us on a free optional excursion to the Passchendaele Book Fair where you can buy new and old books about WW1 and also memorabilia. We then return to Ypres to attend the special evening Last Post at 20.00hrs before returning to the hotel.

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Includes Breakfast

Accommodation

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

Novotel Ypres - You can also choose to stay in the 3-star Novotel Ypres, located just a few hundred yards from the Menin Gate and Cloth Hall. Tour Ref 4ABFHV.