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WWI, Ypres and Dunkirk

Remember the sacrifice of French troops of WW1 during May and June, 1940, and join us on a Battlefield tour specially tailored for your group following Operation Dynamo. Visit the beaches of Dunkirk, the East Mole and Cassel Hill.

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Itinerary

Departure from your local area for the journey to the Channel and your crossing to Calais. Then travel onwards to your hotel in the Ypres area for two night stay.

Our day ends in Ypres where we attend the moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial, held at 8pm each evening.

Included Highlights

Ypres Last Post Ceremony

We start the tour with a look at some of the fighting in the Battle of France in May 1940 following the story of the Durham Light Infantry and Royal Welch Fusiliers at St. Venant, seeing the memorial and nearby graves.

At Cassel Hill we examine the last stand here by the Oxs & Bucks and Glosters.

Following lunch we visit the site at Wormhout where a massacre of British troops took place by the SS and then go into Dunkirk to visit the excellent War Museum of Operation Dynamo, followed by a visit to the East Mole.

We end the day in the dunes of Dunkirk to remember the sacrifice of French troops in May-June 1940.

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Cassel Hill Wormhout East Mole Dunkirk

Leave your hotel after breakfast and travel to Calais for your return Channel crossing. Then continue to your local area.

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