World War 1 Group Tour - England, France & Belgium

Hailed as the 'Great War' to end all wars, World War 1 in fact became one of the bloodiest conflicts in history with an estimated 37 million civilian and military casualties combined. Raging on for 4 years, it brought down monarchies and rewrote the map of Europe. Now over 100 years later, we invite you to take a commemorative tour back to the fields, towns and villages where the conflicts and battles took place. See the battlefields, museums with battle plans, photographs, military exhibits and personal artefacts, war graves and monuments.

Tour Highlights

Somme battlefields, Bellicourt American Monument and Somme American Cemetery.
The sites of the Battles of Argone, St Mihiel Salient, Verdun and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest undertaking by the US Army during WW1.
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, covering 130.5 acres, where rests the largest number of US military dead in Europe.
St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial, dedicated to US soldiers who died in the offensive that threatened Paris.
Montsec American Monument, commemorating the achievements of the US soldiers who fought in the surrounding region and in Alsace and Lorraine, in 1917 and 1918. Names of villages liberated by American troops are carved upon the frieze.
See a Great War battlefield much as it was at the Beaumont-Hamel Memorial, which gives a realistic idea of what the fighting must have been like, thanks to a remarkably well preserved system of trenches.
Thiepval Memorial, the largest Commonwealth war memorial in the world.
Ypres Salient and a preserved bunker complex used by the British Army as a medical dressing station, the Bayernwald German Trenches and the three German bunkers in Tyne Cot cemetery.
Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium with Visitor Centre focusing on the Ypres-Lys campaign, with personal stories, photographs, films, and interactive displays.
Audenarde American Monument, which commemorates the service and sacrifice of the 40,000 American troops who fought as units attached to the Group of Armies commanded by the King of Belgium.
Canadian National Vimy Memorial, a tribute to all Canadians who served during the First World War.
French Flanders, home of the poppy fields.
See where the Treaty of Versailles was signed, signifying the end of the War.
London and the Imperial War Museum and its WW1 Galleries, promising WWI trenches, original weapons, aircraft and personal stories.
Panoramic tour of London. See where the US Navy had their headquarters; Buckingham Palace, where the King and Queen celebrated the end of the war and WW1 memorials around the city, including most famously The Cenotaph, originally unveiled in 1920 to commemorate the dead of WWI, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey and the Royal Artillery Memorial and Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner.
Explore a replica WWI trench system in the Kent countryside.
Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome and Museum (only open on limited days).

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What Our Clients Say

I was very fortunate to be on their 70th and 75th D-Day celebration tours. The service and attention to details was exceptional. It was very moving to go back.

As a Jane Austen enthusiast, this tour was perfect - and the Jane Austen Festival in Bath was just fabulous to see!

Words fail me...The Downton Abbey was a perfectly wonderful travel experience! We did not know we would be the ONLY guests at the Abbey. When we realised how truly exclusive our tour was we were speechless! Surreal being there and actually meeting Lady Carnarvon.