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The 1st July 2022 marks the 106th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the defining battles of the Great War and a turning point in British history. Heralded as the ‘Big Push’, in one day alone more than 57,000 men became casualties, and in a battle that lasted 141 days it would become the graveyard of the Pals, of Kitchener’s Army. Join with us as we travel to the haunting Somme battlefields and attend the ceremony at Thiepval on the anniversary.
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Local departure by coach, then to our hotel in Belgium or northern France for a four-night stay.
We begin our tour of the Somme Battlefields in the northern sector, visiting the area at Gommecourt, and later at Serre. Here we walk up onto the battlefield where the Northern Pals battalions fought on the Somme, with men from Accrington, Barnsley, Bradford, Hull, Leeds, and Sheffield went into action, and fell in such great numbers.
After lunch in Albert we visit the Somme 1916 Museum beneath the town, and then look at life behind the lines on the Somme seeing Heilly Station Cemetery and then going to Vignacourt where we look at the amazing collection of WW1 images in the ‘Maison des Australien’ museum, which showcases a unique archive of portraits of soldiers taken in the village.
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We start today at Beaumont-Hamel, visiting the Sunken Lane and the Hawthorn Mine Crater, which was blown on the opening day of the Somme offensive. At Thiepval we visit the Ulster Tower Memorial and spend time at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and the nearby Visitors' Centre.
After lunch, we look at the later fighting on the Somme, seeing the battlefield areas at High Wood, Delville Wood, Flers and the Le Transloy Ridge.
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Today is the 106th Anniversary of the First Day of the Somme. We attend the morning ceremony at the Thiepval Memorial, arranged by the local British Legion Somme Branch. In the afternoon we visit some 1st July battlefields at Ovillers, La Boisselle, Mametz and Montauban.
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Return home.
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