Battlefields Tour
Friday 22nd March to
Monday 25th March 2013
Itinerary
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Battlefields Tour Friday 22nd March to Monday 25th March 2013
Itinerary |
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Day 1: Friday 22nd March 2013
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5.40am |
Depart School – executive coach |
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13.00pm |
Dover – board ferry |
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16.00pm |
Calais |
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17.00pm |
Arrive Le Chateau |
Day 2: Saturday 23rd March 2013
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7.30am |
Breakfast |
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8.30am |
Depart for Somme area |
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10.00am |
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11.00am
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Notre Dame de Lorette, French national cemetery, memorial & trenches |
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13.00pm |
Vimy Ridge Trenches and Memorial/visitor centre |
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2.30pm |
Tour through Somme area |
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Bucquoy Road Cemy, Ficheux, near Arras, grave of Charles Royden (Gt.Grandfather of Mr M. Royden) |
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5.00pm |
Return to Chateau |
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7.30pm |
Evening entertainment |
Day 3: Sunday 24th March 2013
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7.30am |
Breakfast |
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8.30am |
Depart for Ypres area |
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10.00am |
Grave visit: Noel Chavasse V.C. & Bar, M.C. |
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11.00am |
‘In Flanders Fields' Museum / Ypres Town |
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Menin Gate - searching for Chloe Yeadon's Ancestor |
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1.00pm |
Ypres Salient Tour |
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Essex Farm Cemetery |
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Langemark German Cemetery |
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Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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Sanctuary Wood Museum/Hill 62/Messines Ridge |
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Spanbrokmolen Pool of Peace |
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6.00pm |
Return to Ypres town for Restaurant meal |
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8.00pm |
Menin Gate for Last Post Ceremony Exhortation and laying of wreath by Chloe Yeadon and Connor Brizell (Year 10) |
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9.00pm |
Arrive at Chateau |
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8.00am |
Breakfast |
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9.15am |
Depart for Etaples/Calais/Shopping |
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12.30pm |
Calais – depart for Dover |
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2.00pm |
Dover |
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21.00pm |
Arrive Whitby |
Photographs throughout by
Mr M.W.Royden
Contributions by
Sam Thompson
Mr A. Sharples
Deanna Fairhurst
Jordan Rennison
James Carrington