The Australian Dimension 1918 Tour

A special one day tour from Ypres exploring the Somme sites associated with the AIF in 1918

Frequency; According to demand
Depart: 8.00am
Return: 6.00pm
Meet: OTT Bookshop - (next to Menin Gate)
Price: 90 euros pp - min. four persons (or 115€pp 2-3 persons)

This is a special tour to remember the actions, and visit the battlefield sites, of the AIF during 1918.

On route we stop at…

Pozieres and view the Gibraltar blockhouse, the 1st Division memorial, the Somme landscape before proceeding to:

Morlancourt Ridge where the Australians assembled before crossing the Somme river

We pass the site of the bringing down of the Red Baron before arriving at the 3rd Division AIF Memorial.

A short drive brings us to Beacon Cemetery with a large number of 1918 Australian graves with some interesting epitaphs and magnificent views of the German positions.

We cross the Somme at Sailly-Laurette and proceed to an unusual stunning monument at Chippilly of a Soldier saying goodbye to his dying horse.

We arrive at le Hamel with original trenches and explanatory plaques and understand the actions on the 4th July 1918 where 2 VC’s were awarded. Here the Americans 33rd Division fought with Monash resulting in their first Medal of Honour to be won in this war.

A short distance away brings us to the impressive Villers-Bretonneux memorial and the Australian campaigns of the 25th April and the 8th August, the start of the last 100days of the war.

Lunch is taken at the village of Villers-Bretonneux and if time permits we visit the Museum with its special relationship with Australia. Finally, we follow the Australian advance to Peronne arriving at Mount St Quentin where the Australian memorial to the 2nd Division is located.

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