ONE DAY TOUR
The Somme
Daily tour from Saint-Quentin or Amiens. up to 7 people
Starting at 9.30am and finishing at around 6.00pm
Leaving from Amiens or Saint-Quentin, we'll first visit Villers-Bretonneux and surroundings. In Adelaïde cemetery, we'll see the former Grave of the Australian Unknown Soldier. Then, we'll visit Victoria school, the Franco-Australian Museum and we'll reach the National Australian Memorial, where are engraved 11,000 names of soldiers who died in France and whose graves have never been found.
Afterwards, we'll drive to the battlefields of the Somme of 1916, through Le Hamel, where the victorious attack launched by General Monash took place in July 1918.
After visiting the Lochnagar Crater, left by a tremendous mine explosion on 1 July 1916, we'll have a lunch break (snack, restaurant or picnic)
We'll continue the visit with the bloodiest Australian struggle on the Western Front, in the village of Pozières, where remain vestiges of Gibraltar bunker, the First Australian Division Memorial, the Windmill and the Tanks Corp Memorials.
We’ll then head towards Thiepval to visit the memorial erected to remember the some 71,200 British and 800 South African soldiers who died during the Battle of the Somme with unknown grave. We will make a stop at Mouquet farm (Moo-Cow farm), another terrible place of the Pozières battle.
To understand the Trench war, we’ll also visit the Newfoundland Park in Beaumont Hamel and especially it's well preserved trench system; we will then continue the tour in Péronne. The 2nd Australian Division Memorial in Mount St.Quentin recalls a great victory.
The visit should end either at your hotel or at the railway station in Amiens or in Saint-Quentin (for other town, please contact us).
This itinerary is subject to change depending on request (relative's grave visit by example)
This tour includes :
- Pick up to the train station
- Drop off to the train station
- Museum entrance fees (Villers-Bretonneux, except on Sunday)
- Transportation in a very comfortable air-conditioned Citroën Jumpy minibus
- Guide services
- Guide lunch
Please, contact us for the cost, dates and further information
