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2 Day Australian Tour - from Arras

By Sacred Ground Tours
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $997 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

The only Australian guide operating on the Western Front.

Two leisurely filled days following Australian footsteps across France & Belgium. Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, Pozieres, Fromelles, Messines, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele…. etc

All Day Tours start / end in Arras and are run in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle. Our small group tours allow to visit the grave of a unique soldier or follow the actions of a relative.

For singles, couples and small groups. Shared basis - Maximum of 7 clients.

Tours are run in English.

Activity location

  • Serre Road Cemetery No.2
    • D919
    • Hebuterne, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Serre Road Cemetery No.2
    • D919
    • Hebuterne, France

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2 Day Australian Tour - from Arras
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00AM
Price details
CA $996.86 x 1 AdultCA $996.86
Total
Price is CA $996.86
Until Wed, Apr 22

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Entry Fees.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottled water.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Meals.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Accommodation.

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Out in the Somme Day Tour

  • 13 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Not included

Serre Road Cemetery No.2

  • 20m
The largest Commonwealth cemetery in the Somme.

Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial

  • 30m
A WWI battlefield left as it was. Walk through authentic trenches used on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Thiepval Memorial

  • 30m
Over 73,000 missing British soldiers are commemorated, those with no-known grave.

Mouquet Farm

The fields here contain the highest concentration of Australia's fallen on the Western Front.

Tank Corps Memorial

  • 20m
Wind Mill Site, a sacred ground where many Australians fought.

Pozieres

An Australian village in the Somme.

1st Australian Division Memorial

  • 20m
The 1st Australian Division lost more men at Pozieres than any other battlefield in France and Belgium.

Lochnagar Crater WW1

  • 20m
An underground mine detonated to start the Battle of the Somme. The biggest scar on the land of the Western Front.

3rd Australian Division Memorial

  • 10m
Where General Monash and the 3rd Australian Division halted the German advance in 1918.

Australian National Memorial

  • 40m
Villers-Bretonneux, the site of the ANZAC Day Dawn Service in France.

Sir John Monash Centre

  • 1h
A "must visit" information centre showcasing Australian action across the Western Front.

Franco-Australian Museum

  • 40m
  • Admission ticket not included
Victoria School in Villers-Bretonneux, where Australians are forever remembered.

Australian Corps Memorial

  • 20m
Le Hamel - where General Monash introduced tactics that took charge of the war.

Day 2: Fromelles - Ypres Day Tour

  • 14 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Not included

Fromelles

Where Australians were recently discovered in a mass grave.

Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery

  • 20m
The newest Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery containing all the Australians found in the mass grave at Pheasant Wood, Fromelles.

Australian Memorial Park

  • 20m
Located on the Fromelles battlefield with the iconic Cobber's Statue.

VC Corner Australian Cemetery

  • 20m
Located on no-man's land at Fromelles. Where 1299 Australian missing from the disastrous Battle of Fromelles are commemorated.

Christmas Truce Memorial

  • 20m
The official site of the 1914 Christmas Truce.

Messines Ridge

The ridge blown apart by 19 Allied mines in 1917.

Hill 60

  • 30m
Walk through the massive crater created by an underground mine in 1917, represented in the book / film "Beneath Hill 60".

Brothers In Arms Memorial

  • 20m
Born from the fierce passion of a local Belgian, the memorial is dedicated to all the brothers that fought on the Western Front.

Buttes New British Cemetery

  • 30m
Polygon Wood, the site of the ANZAC Day Dawn Service in Belgium and the location of the 5th Australian Division Memorial.

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Regarded as the best museum on the Western Front.

Tyne Cot Cemetery

  • 30m
The largest Commonwealth Cemetery in the world;

Menin Gate Memorial

  • 20m
Where the Commonwealth missing in Belgium a commemorated.

Ieper (Ypres)

  • 1h
Dinner is in the old town of Ypres.

Last Post ceremony

  • 40m
The very emotive Last Post Ceremony, performed by the locals every day since 1928. A perfect way the end a Western Front visit.

Location

Activity location

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    Serre Road Cemetery No.2
    • D919
    • Hebuterne, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Serre Road Cemetery No.2
    • D919
    • Hebuterne, France

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