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The Somme 2 - 1918
Tour Over Three Days (One full day and two half days) -
from £529 for your vehicle, driver and one passenger
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies
launched a series of offensives. The Second Battle of the Somme, 1918, was fought over the same
ground that had seen such fierce fighting just two years before. During the last weeks of that summer,
through the fields of Picardy, the British Third and Fourth Armies made considerable advances pushing
the Germans back - from Albert and Bapaume in the north, and through the open valleys of the River
Somme and Peronne further south. The German Second Army was pushed back on a 50-mile front.
While the Americans were supporting the British in an advance on Arras, the British Army and American
Second Corps captured Albert. Bapaume fell to the New Zealanders at the end of August, the
Australians crossed the River Somme and then advanced towards Peronne breaking the German line at
Mont St Quentin and forcing them into full retreat.
•
Le P’tit Train at Froissy
•
Rancourt
•
Dernancourt
•
Le Hamel
•
Villers-Bretonneux
•
Bray-sur-Somme
•
Peronne Museum of the Great War
•
Ligny-Thilloy
•
Butte de Warlencourt
Tour Highlights
Our
tour
starts
from
the
historical
town
of
Peronne,
an
area
in
which
most
visitors
travel
around
the
battlefields
by
car
or
bus;
however,
on
our
tours
we
rarely
see
other
vehicles on the lanes we use to traverse the area.
Over
three
days
we
will
give
you
an
insight
from
a
different
perspective
of
this
famous
battlefield, traveling in a small convoy of 5-6 vehicles, on tracks once trod by infantry.
You’ll
receive
CB
commentary
as
we
drive
along
our
route
so
you
can
really
get
a
sense of where troops came from and what their objectives were.
To
book,
click
on
the
link
for
your
chosen
date.
We
only
require
a
£100
deposit
per
vehicle
or
full
payment
if
the
tour
is
less
than
six
weeks
away.
Eight
weeks
before
the
tour
we
will
send
you
a
balance
request
and
invoice.
Once
the
balance
is
paid
we
will
send
you
an
information
pack
including
meeting
places,
times,
booking
references
etc.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at:
info@battlefieldsby4x4.com
2024 DATES
Costs below are for your vehicle,
driver and one passenger.
Just £100 deposit required at booking
to secure your place
If you’d like to be informed if additional
dates become available, click below
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Example Itinerary:
Day 1
Independent travel to Peronne, Somme.
Welcome, introductions and briefing.
The tour starts with a visit to the Historial de Peronne / Museum of The Great War,
entrance is via the castle. On leaving the museum we head out of town and drive
along some tracks stopping along the route at key battlefields points.
Arrival time back at Albert around 17:30
We usually have a table booked for 19:30 at a well-appointed restaurant just
outside Albert. This is optional but gives you chance to relax after your journey
and also get to know each other over four delicious, typically French courses in a
local restaurant.
The cost is approx €35pp including wine.
Day 2
Meet at a local supermarket so you can stock up on fuel and provisions for the
day before setting out, using many green lanes, to venture to key areas of the
battlefield.
We visit Dernancourt where Australians fought so gallantly. On to Corbie and
Baron von Richthofen’s crash site. We continue to Villers-Bretonneux and the
Australian Memorial then visit the scene of the first ever tank on tank battle. The
battle at Hamel will also feature in today’s route
Day 3
During the last day of the Tour we take in the German cemetery at Rancourt, the
site of William Anderson’s VC of 25th March 1918, the Hawker VC Memorial, the
stronghold of the Butte de Warlencourt before heading towards the final stop,
close to Albert.
(Non-contractual Tour example, subject to alteration when necessary)