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Remembering World War 1 - featuring the Great Pilgrimage 90 Event

During the centenary of The Last 100 Days of WW1, join us on a special journey of Remembrance as we view the Royal British Legion Great Pilgrimage 90 event and visit the key battlefields of Mons, Loos and Fromelles, where a generation fought and died. Our journey begins in Mons, where we visit St Symphorien cemetery before we travel to Nimy Bridge and the Mons War Museum. On the second day of your battlefield tour, you will join the commemorative events in Ypres and at Menin Gate. Finally, we will visit the Battlefields at Loos and the ‘forgotten front ‘of northern France, where we will remember the men who bravely fought there.

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4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
Specialist Battlefield Guide
Convenient local joining points
Travel by executive coach

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Local departure by coach, then to our mainstay hotel in Belgium or northern France for a four night stay.

On our first day on the Battlefields we visit Mons, where for the British the war began and ended. At St Symphorien Cemetery we see the ‘First and Last’ casualties of WW1 and the grave of one of the first Victoria Cross winners. We then visit the battlefield at Nimy Bridge where the first Victoria Crosses were awarded to men of the Royal Fusiliers and also visit the spot where the first shots were fired by the British Army. We have an extended lunch period in Mons for free-time in this beautiful Belgian city, and then visit the Mons War Museum.

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St. Symphorien Cemetery Nimy Bridge Mons Mons Military Museum

On the 8th August 2018 the Royal British Legion will deliver a national level commemorative event at the Menin Gate to mark the centenary of the start of ‘The Last 100 Days’. Today, we will attend the event in Ypres as spectators which will coincide with the 90th Anniversary of the Great Pilgrimage. We will remain in Ypres to attend the moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial, held at 8pm each evening.

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Menin Gate Ypres - 90th Anniversary of the Great Pilgrimage Last Post Ceremony

On our final battlefield day we travel to the Battlefield of Loos where Rudyard Kipling’s son, Jack, was killed in 1915. Here we visit Dud Corner Cemetery and the Loos Memorial, and examine the story of Kipling’s only son. After lunch period at Bethune, we travel into the ‘forgotten front’ of northern France seeing the Indian Corps Memorial at Neuve-Chapelle and end the day at Fromelles seeing the Australian Memorial Park and VC Corner Cemetery.

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Fromelles Neuve Chapelle Loos Memorial VC Corner Cemetery

Return home

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The order of the itinerary may differ, with the exception of being in Ypres on the 8th August 2018 to view the Royal British Legion Great Pilgrimage 90 event which will remain despite any other changes.

Please note; the option to join the tour from Northern Ireland (Tour ref: 7BRB) will only operate subject to minimum numbers being achieved. Leger Holidays will advise in Spring 2018 whether the minimum number has been reached and whether the Northern Ireland option will operate or not. Should the option not be available then a full refund will be provided.

10% from the basic sale price of this tour will be paid to Royal British Legion Trading Limited which gives its taxable profits to The Royal British Legion (Charity no. 219279) and Poppyscotland (Scottish Charity No. SC014096)