2017 WWI & WWII Historical Tour to Flanders
Guided tour of war memorials and battlefields by a professional historian
Dates: September 24th to 28th incl.
Duration: Five days (4 nights)
Accommodation: Four nights at Messines Peace Village
Food: Breakfast each morning, packed lunch each day and three evening meals
Flights: Aer Lingus Cork/ Paris (CDG)/Cork
Bus transfers: Paris Airport/Messines/Paris Airport plus daily excursions
Cost: 650.00€pp
Some of the proposed sites for tour
- · Kemmel Information Centre – Battle of Messines 1917 & Bayernwald German trenches
- · Walking tour of Messines: Peace Park, Messines Historical Museum (Old Town Hall), St. Nicolas Church and New Zealand Memorial and cemetery
- · Museum of the Battle of Fromelles & Australian Memorial Park
- · Visit 1940 Dunkirk Museum
- · Tyne Cot British Military Cemetery
- · Passchendaele Memorial Museum
- · German Cemetery at Vladslo
- · Francis Ledwidge Memorial at Bosinghe
- · Menin Gate, Ypres for Last Post ceremony
- · In Flanders Museum, Ypres
If interested a copy of the tour application form can be got from
Mike McLoughlin
Dunmanus, Old Cratloe Road, Limerick
Ph. (M) 087 7594 940
Email: [email protected]