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5-Day Break
- Day 1 – Local departure by coach then onwards to the Reims area for a four-night stay.
- Day 2 – Miracle of the Marne – American Marines at Belleau Wood Our journey starts at La Ferte sous Jouarre. We see the British Memorial to the Missing of the 1914 campaign and the Royal Engineers Memorial. At Montreuil aux Lihons we visit British graves from September 1914, and at Chateau-Thierry see the huge American Memorial commemorating the 1918 battle. After lunch we follow the story of the US Marines in Belleau Wood. We then see the ‘Ghosts’ monument on the hillside at Butte de Chalmont, and look at British troops in the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918, visiting Raperie British Cemetery. We end the day in Soissons. B
- Day 3 – Champagne – Fort La Pompelle We start at Fort La Pompelle; now a museum, it sat on the front line for four years. We then see where the French attacked at Mourmelon in 1915 and 1917, visiting French and German graves, and also the unique Russian Cemetery and Memorial. Lunchtime in Suippes, with extended time to visit the Champagne- Marne Museum, before visiting Navarin Farm and the American Memorial on Blanc Mont, set among Sommepy trenches and shell holes from 1918. B
- Day 4 – Meuse-Argonne – Verdun At Vauquois, we see where a whole village was blown off a hillside following tunnelling operations by French and German troops. We then follow the US Advance in September 1918 to Romagne, visiting the War Museum, and nearby Meuse-Argonne War Cemetery – the largest American cemetery in Europe with more than 14,000 graves. After lunch we travel to Verdun, to see the Ossuary at Douaumont; an imposing memorial which contains the bones of more than 120,000 soldiers who fell at Verdun in 1916. We then look at the battle of the Verdun forts. B
- Day 5 – To Calais, then return home. B
Included Meals: B=Breakfast
Please Note: Entrance fees to museums and places of interest are at extra cost.
What's Included?
- Free local joining points
- Travel by executive coach
- Specialist Battlefields Guide
- 4 nights’ accommodation with continental breakfast
- Battlefield visits as described
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Notes
Prices are per person, based on two sharing.
Extras:
- Optional excursions
- Single room supplement £99
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