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Whitby High School

 

Battlefields Tour 18th-21st March 2006

 

Itinerary

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Battlefields Itinerary | Flanders Field, Belgium (Sunday) | Vimy/Somme, France (Monday) | Links

Itinerary

 

Day 1:  Saturday 18th March 2006

 

6.30am

Depart School – executive coach

14.30pm

Dover – board ferry

17.00pm

Calais 

18.00pm

Arrive Chateau

 

 

Day  2:   Sunday 19th March 2006

 

8.00am

Breakfast

8.45am

Depart for Ypres area

9.30am

‘In Flanders Fields Museum

 

Ypres Town

1.00pm

Ypres Salient Tour

 

Langemark German Cemetery

 

Tyne Cot Cemetery

 

Sanctuary Wood Museum/Hill 62/Messines Ridge

 

Bedford House Cemetery, Zillebeke - to trace Gt-Gt-Grandfather of Nick Paulson (Year 11)

6.00pm

Return to Ypres town for Restaurant meal

8.00pm

Menin Gate for Last Post Ceremony

Citation and laying of wreath by Holly Sanders & Nick Paulson (Year 11)

9.00pm

Arrive at Chateau

 

 

 

Day 3:   Monday 20 th March 2006

 

8.00am

Breakfast

8.45am

Depart for Somme area

10.00am

Notre Dame de Lorette, French national cemetery, memorial & trenches

11.00am

 

Vimy Ridge Trenches and Memorial/visitor centre

 

13.00pm

Albert WWI Museum

2.30pm

Tour through Somme area via Albert

 

Thiepval Memorial

 

Lochnagar Crater

 

Beaumont Hamel/Newfoundland Memorial Park

 

Boucquoy Road Cemy, Ficheux, near Arras

grave of Charles Royden  (Gt.Grandfather of Mr M.Royden)

5.00pm

Return to Chateau

7.30pm

Evening entertainment – Quiz & Disco

 

Day 4:    Tuesday 21st March 2006

 

8.00am?

Breakfast

8.45am

Depart for Bologne/ Calais/Shopping/Sightseeing

2.00pm

Calais – depart for Dover

2.30pm

Dover

20.15pm

Arrive Whitby

 




Photographs throughout contributed by

Holly Sanders, Mark Davies (Year 11),

Miss J. Shakeshaft,

Mr J. Simpson and

Mr M.W.Royden



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www.roydenhistory.co.uk