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BATTLEFIELD TOURS WITH 'IN THE FOOTSTEPS'
Battlefield Tours – Personalised Tours | Tailor-made Tours | Group Tours
BATTLEFIELD TOURS with In the footsteps
At In the footsteps our aim is to provide a top quality battlefield tour service across the battlefields of Northwest Europe. Our tours fall into three categories: -
Personalised Tours - A range of tours that are personalised to your requirements. These battlefield tours are ideal for those wishing to “follow in the footsteps of heroes” on a battlefield tour looking at the actions of a specific military unit or battle in which they have an interest. They are designed for individuals and/or small groups that wish to have a tour specifically personalised for them so that they can see what they want to see and visit the battlefield sites important to them.
Tailor-made Tours - Our tailor-made tours are specifically designed for you. These battlefield tours are ideal for those wishing to “follow in the footsteps” of an ancestor or relative on a genealogy tour. They are designed for individuals and/or family groups that wish to have a tour designed specifically for them so that they can see where their ancestors fought and visit the battlefield sites important to them.
Group Tours - Our tour service for groups who wish to tour the battlefields of north-west Europe. These battlefield tours are ideal for large groups, such as a school, military unit, comrades association, club or organisation that want a battlefield tour for their members. These battlefield tours can be personalised to suit the requirements of the group and the battlefield being visited. They can be tailored to follow a theme to enable the group to achieve their specific aim for the tour.
A tour with In the footsteps takes you on a journey that is a truly unique experience and will leave you with memories that will last forever.
Locations We Have Visited
On our previous tours we have visited: -
The Western Front of the 1914-18 Great War and the battlefields associated with: -
- Mons and the Great Retreat.
- TheYpres Salient including: -
- The First Battle of Ypres and the forming of the salient.
- The Second Battle of Ypres and the First Gas Attacks along the Gravenstafel Ridge and the Battle for Sint Juliaan.
- The Battle of Messines and the various actions along the Messines Ridge.
- The Third Battle of Ypres including the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, the Battle of Langemarck, the Battle of Menin Road, the Battle of Polygon Wood, the Battle of Broodseinde, the Battle of Poelcappelle and the Battles for Passchendaele.
- The German Spring Offensive of 1918 and the 'Last Hundred Days' including the Battle of the Lys and Mont Kemmel.
- The Battles of the Somme including: -
- The First Day of the Somme, 1st July 1916, the Bloodiest Day in the history of the British Army - Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Authuille, Ovillers, La Boisselle, Fricourt, Mametz and Montauban.
- The 1916 Battles of the Somme - the Battle of Albert, Mametz Wood, the Battle of Bazentin Ridge, the Battle of Pozieres, the Battle of Delville Wood, the Battle of High Wood, the Battle of Guillemont, the Battle of Ginchy, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the Battle of Morval, the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, the Battle of Le Transloy, the Battle of the Ancre Heights and the Battle of the Ancre.
- The 1918 German Spring Offensive and the 'Last Hundred Days' - the 1918 Battle of Amiens, including Villers-Bretonneux, Le Hamel and Le Quesnel; the Advance to the Hindenburg Line including Mont St Quentin, the Canal du Nord, the St Quentin Canal and Cambrai; the breaking of the Hindenburg Line and the Advance to Mons.
- The Battles of Arras including: -
- The 1917 battles - the First Battle of the Scarpe, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the First Battle of Bullecourt, the Battle of Lagnicourt, the Second Battle of the Scarpe, the Battle of Arleux, the Second Battle of Bullecourt and the Third Battle of the Scarpe.
- The 1918 German Spring Offensive and the 'Last Hundred Days' - the Battle of the Scarpe and the Battle of Drocourt-Queant.
- The Battles further South including: -
- The Battle of Verdun.
- The Chemin de Dames.
- The Battle of Soissons.
- The Meuse-Argonne.
The battlefields of the Second World War including: -
- D-Day Landing Beaches.
- The Battle of Normandy.
- Operation Market Garden.
- The Battle of the Bulge.
- The Rhine Crossing.
Plus the older battlefields of: -
- Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings.
- Crecy.
- Agincourt.
- Waterloo.
These battlefield tours have been arranged for American, Australian, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Singaporean and South African visitors.
Each tour that we provide can be especially designed to cater for your very own requirements and we give you the opportunity to see the specific places that are important to you. So whatever you want to do we can build an itinerary that ensures you get to see what you want to see not just what the tour operator wants to show you.
An In the footsteps tour gives you the flexibility to go where you want, when you want and stay in the grade of accommodation you prefer. So whether you want a battlefield tour of d-day and the beaches of normandy or arnhem and operation market garden in ww2 or a battlefield tour to the somme, ypres, ypres salient, passchendaele, vimy ridge, mons, verdun on the western front of the 1914-18 Great War or even visit one of the older battlefields we can design a tour that is right for you.
To find out more about one of our In the footsteps battlefield tours visit our tour pages and put yourself in control.
Commercial Services
Author's Books
A range of battlefield tour guidebooks and military history books written by Major Ian R Gumm TD and published by In the footsteps. These books relate to some of the battlefield tours that we have conducted.
Bookshop
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Dedication
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
An extract from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of those who fought for their country so that we may enjoy the freedoms we have today.
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