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Anzac Day Tour 2010
22 April to 4 May
To secure your booking, please forward this registration form together with your deposit of $300 per person to:
FRANCE @ LEISURE - Level 1 Wickham House - 155 Wickham Terrace – Brisbane QLD 4000
or fax your credit card payment to: (07) 3220 0630.
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ANZAC DAY TOUR 2010
Battlefield France – Australians in two world wars
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PARIS . AMIENS . THE SOMME . BULLECOURT . VILLERS BRETONNEUX . FROMELLES
Booking Conditions: Price is per person based on Twin-share accommodation in standard rooms. Price is subject to availability at the time of booking and may vary due to currency
fluctuations. $300 deposit (non refundable) per person is required at the time of booking. 50% of the land content is due by 30/09/09 – Full payment is due 10 weeks prior to departure from
Australia. HINDENBURG LINE . YPRES . HONFLEUR . NORMANDY BEACHES . ST MALO
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This tour booking form dated 10/07/2009 supersedes all previous versions you may have received.
FRANCE @ LEISURE - Level 1, Wickham House - 155 Wickham Terrace – Brisbane QLD 4000
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n no other theatre or conflict have
Australians played such a decisive role, yet paid
such a harrowing price, as on the Great War
battlefields of The Somme and Flanders.
2010 Anzac Day and D-Day Tour
Battlefield France – Australians in two world wars
22 April to 4 May
7TH DAY 28 APRIL Ypres to Honfleur (BLD)
After breakfast we travel along the Menin Road towards Polygon Wood, now a green cathedral in the centre of which stands the Australian
5th Division Memorial. Our travels towards Passch endaele take us to the largest cemetery on the Western Front, Tyne Cot. We will view the
Culminating in the Anzac Dawn Service at Passchendaele battlefield and, time permitting one of the better local museums that commemorate the momentous events in 1917. We will
Villers-Bretonneux, this tour will retrace the visit Essex Farm Cemetery where the immortal poem “In Flanders Fields” was written. We end our first leg of the tour and drive to Honfleur
ahead of our visit to the beaches and hedgerows of one of history’s greatest epics: Operation Overlord and D-Day. Evening in picturesque
steps of nearly 300,000 Australians – the ordinary Honfleur.
and extraordinary, who answered a young
country’s call to the colours. You will visit 8TH DAY 29 APRIL Honfleur to Bayeux (B)
While few Australians participated in the ground operations of D-Day, many of our air force boys made a vital and valuable contribution. We
places redolent of “a distant grief” – Fromelles, begin our D-Day tour with visits to the Merville Battery and Pegasus Bridge, scene of the heroics of the British 6th Airborne Division in the early
Pozieres, Polygon Wood Bullecourt – and those hours of D-Day. From Pegasus Bridge we shall travel the short distance to Ouistreham and visit the Atlantic Wall Museum and travel along the
synonymous with the long march to British and Canadian Beaches: Sword, Juno and Gold, before arriving in Bayeux and spending a pleasant evening there.
victory – V.B., Le Hamel and Mont St Quentin.
9TH DAY 30 APRIL Bayeux (B)
Our travellers can take the option of spending a leisurely morning at Bayeux and taking in the famous Tapestry or venturing south of the
You will also have the opportunity to visit the town to the heart of bocage country where savage battles were fought between the advancing British forces, including the famous “Desert
beaches and hedgerows of Normandy – the scene
of one of the twentieth century’s greatest epics,
and where our boys also laid down their lives,
far from home, a generation later.
“ Rats”, against the defending Germans, in the attempt to outflank Caen. Australian Typhoon pilots are remembered at Noyers Bocage. We
will then travel a short distance to Villers-Bocage where panzer ace Michael Wittman stopped the 7th Armoured Division in its tracks.
After lunch we will travel north from Bayeux to Arromonches to view the spectacular remains of the
Mulberry Harbours and the intact German batteries of Longues-sur-Mer. We will also see where the
forward airfield known as “B1” was situated once the allied bridgehead was established and out of which
Kieran McCarthy, Tour Escort Australian airmen operated. Overnight in Bayeux.
10TH DAY 1 MAY St Malo (B)
Today’s travels will take us through the American sectors of the Normandy front: from the bluffs of
1ST DAY 22 APRIL 2010 Paris (D) “Bloody Omaha” to the serene tranquillity of the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer; to the scene
The Paris of Baron Haussman retains a vast number of landmarks with the edgy excitement, and all of the charm that mesmerised the raw of the American 2nd Ranger Battalion’s heroics at Pointe-du-Hoc; and onto St Mere Eglise where an
antipodeans of nearly a century ago. Check in to your accommodation and drink in the atmosphere at your own leisure. The military minded American paratrooper still hangs from the church tower. We visit the striking and sombre German
may care to take in Napoleon’s tomb and visit the Musee de l’Armee in an adjoining wing of the Hotel des Invalides. The day draws to a close cemetery at La Cambe before moving onto St Malo for an overnight stay.
with a welcoming dinner in a local restaurant where you will meet with your tour guide, Kieran McCarthy and share your aspirations, family
anecdotes and interests for your western front pilgrimage. Dinner at the Pasco Restaurant overnight in Paris. 11TH DAY 2 MAY St Malo (BD - farewell dinner)
St Malo is a town of considerable medieval charm which was controversially burnt to the ground
2ND DAY 23 APRIL Paris to Amiens (BD) during the 1944 fighting, but was painstakingly rebuilt after the War. From St Malo we journey
To the front! After breakfast we board our coach and head for the battlefields where Australians made their stand against the final German to Mont St Michel to visit this famous point of pilgrimage for over a thousand years. Overnight in
onslaughts in 1918 and began their march to victory. From the Australian National Memorial we will see the country across which Pompey St Malo.
Elliott’s and William Glasgow’s men retook the village of Villers-Bretonneux; we will see the heights above the Somme Valley where the Australian
3rd Division executed their campaigns of “peaceful penetration” and where the Diggers brought down the Red Baron. We will walk the battlefield 12TH DAY 3 MAY St Malo to Paris (B)
across which Monash took Le Hamel in 93 minutes. After lunch in Corbie we will visit the Victoria School in Villers-Bretonneux and the woods From St Malo we return to Paris, calling into Le Memorial de Caen en route. The
south of the town where Sadlier won his VC. Heading into Amiens we will visit the Adelaide Cemetery, from where Australia’s unknown soldier Memorial is a “museum to peace”, and traces the lead up to World War Two, the Battle of Normandy, the
was exhumed in 1993. Dinner and overnight in Amiens. fragile peace of the Cold War and the ongoing movement for peace. We then return to Paris late
afternoon. Overnight in Paris.
3RD DAY 24 APRIL Amiens (B)
Today will see us traverse country familiar to popular memory by way of Geoffrey Malins’s famous newsreel “The Battle of the Somme”. 13TH DAY 4 MAY Paris (B)
We visit places forever associated with sacrifice of men from the Empire’s far flung corners – Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Ulster Tower, La Tour services ends after breakfast
Boiselle and Lochnagar Crater. We move onto the field of 23,000 Australian casualties; Pozieres, Mouquet Farm, the Windmill, the First Division
Memorial – a deeply affecting experience. Bert Jacka should have won his second VC here - in Bean’s words “the most dramatic and effective act of
individual audacity in the history of the AIF”. Overnight in Amiens.
4TH DAY 25 APRIL (ANZAC DAY) Amiens (BL)
After an early breakfast we shall depart for the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux for the Dawn Service, the high point of our “Our point of difference: a select group with an itinerary tailored to your needs”
tour. After the Dawn Service we traverse the country where the AIF reached its full potential as a fighting force under the inspired generalship
of Monash. We will cover the country where the 2nd Divison’s assault on Mont St Quentin earned the tribute from British General Rawlinson of
“the finest feat of the war”. Three Victoria Crosses were won at or near Mont St Quentin and we will walk in the footsteps of these men. We will
proceed then to Montbrehain – the scene of Australia’s last infantry battle of the war – where men so close to the war’s end laid down their lives.
5TH DAY 26 APRIL Amiens to Ypres (BL)
After breakfast we board the coach to head north to Ieper (Ypres or “Wipers” to the diggers) in Belgium to recall there the mud and carnage
we associate with the First World War. En route we will visit Bullecourt - “The Blood Tub” - and, time permitting, the striking Canadian National
Memorial at Vimy Ridge. In Ieper we will spend the afternoon taking in the environs of an ancient town that was painstakingly rebuilt after the
war. We can take the opportunity to take in the outstanding “In Flanders Fields Museum” located in the Cloth Hall. We will visit one of the most
picturesque cemeteries on the western front, the Ypres Ramparts Cemetery and witness the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. Overnight
in Ieper.
6TH DAY 27 APRIL Ypres (B)
After breakfast we travel a short distance west to Fromelles, where 5,533 of the country’s best young men fell in one night – arguably the bloodi-
est 24 hours in Australian history. We will visit VC Corner Australian Cemetery which stands in the middle of the battlefield. Not far from there is
the moving “Cobbers Memorial”. We will return to Ieper for lunch where people have the option of having an afternoon at leisure or journeying
out to Messines Ridge. There we will visit the New Zealand Memorial in the town itself, the Ireland Peace Park and the country across which the
Australians made important gains in June 1917, but at a terrible cost. Overnight in Ieper.
Kieran McCarthy leading the 2009 Tour Group
