FULLY ESCORTED FROM BRISBANE by Historian Peter Headley

Australians on the WESTERN FRONT 1916-1918 16 Days | Departs 18 August 2018

COMMEMORATING THE CENTENARY OF THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Menin Gate 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the last year of World War One. Following our highly successful tours to Gallipoli and Beersheba, Zeppelin Travel is offering a guided tour of the Western Front battlefields in and , with particular emphasis on the part played by the Australian Imperial Force. The tour will be escorted by Mr Peter Headley, who will provide historical context and information about the places visited. Peter was one of the lecturers who accompanied our tour to Gallipoli in 2015. He will be supported by Colonel Robert Likeman who is well known as the leader of the previous Zeppelin tours.

The Last Post is sounded every TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: night at the Menin Gate • Escorted by two expert and engaging tour leaders and lecturers • 6 nights in Amiens visiting the battlefields including Pozières, Villers-Bretonneux and Hamel • Visit the key ANZAC sites and key display centres on the Western Front as we follow their path along the valley of the River Somme • Visit sites usually overlooked and get new insights and understanding of the ANZACS role in WW1 on the Western Front • Visit Flanders, Fromelles and Armentières • 4 nights in , touring , and Passchendaele Sausage Valley, near Pozières • Overnight at the sensational Chateau d’Ermenonville in France

Day 1 - 18th August of Albert or ‘Bert’ as it was known to to Paris the troops, where you will have time to Depart Australia on your flight to Paris. lunch and admire the imposing Basilique. Alternatively inspect the underground Day 2 - 19th August (B) tunnels and bunkers from WW1. After Arrive Paris lunch we return to the front line and the Upon arrival, we will transfer to our hotel. Lochnagar Mine Crater. We follow the 2 nights Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel path of the Australians past Casualty Day 3 - 20th August (B) Corner to the Gibraltar Blockhouse, and Paris the Australian Memorial. This morning we have a guided tour Continuing in the footsteps of the of Paris including The Eiffel Tower, Australians we will visit the Pozieres Champs-Elysées, Arc de Triomphe, Windmill and the Tank Corps Memorial. We return to the Somme and to Mouquet The Cemetery at VC Corner, Fleurbaix Notre- Dame, the Louvre, the Seine River banks and more. The afternoon is free to Farm, better remembered as “Moo Cow explore further this romantic city, or visit Farm” by the troops, where following the famous Musée de l’Armée (optional). the Pozierres fighting the Anzacs sought to outflank the German defences at Day 4 - 21st August (B,D) . It took 6 weeks and 10,000 Paris to Amiens casualties to capture the farm. Heading We depart Paris this morning on our back to Amiens we stop at Dernancourt journey north to Amiens, and stop en where the AIF held the line against the route at Compiègne, where the Armistice onslaught of the German Army in the was signed in a railway wagon on Spring of 1918 in the lead up to the November 11th 1918. Then we continue battle of Villers Bretonneux. onto Compiegne itself where you will have free time to explore and have lunch. Day 6 - 23rd August (B) Then we will continue onto Amiens. We We depart after breakfast and travel to check in to our hotel before a Welcome the 1917 battlefields of Bullecourt to Dinner on the banks of the River Somme see the Slouch Hat Memorial and the “Digger” Memorial, which is located An Australian Dressing Station at Bécourt Chateau in the only surviving medieval quarter of Amiens. on the former German trench line. We 6 nights Mercure Amiens Cathedral hear about the terrific struggles of the AIF in two assaults to capture and Day 5 - 22nd August (B) hold part of the Hindenburg line before We begin this morning with the visiting the Jean and Denise Letaille 1916 Somme Battles, first visiting Memorial Museum. We then continue the Newfoundland Memorial and its onto Cambrai, a charming town where preserved trenches. Next we will visit you will have some free time for lunch. the imposing , where Afterwards we will visit the new WW1 the names of more than 72,000 British tank museum. soldiers missing during the Somme fighting are recorded. We visit the town Day 7 - 24th August (B) We leave this morning for Villers Bretonneux, where we visit the new Monash see the statue of Sir Douglas Haig and visit Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, the Menin Centre, opened on Anzac day 2018. This the imposing citadel. Returning to Amiens we Road, Chateau Wood, Clapham Junction, state of the art Centre is situated at the call into the city of Abbeville where the 3rd and Nonne Bosschen. We will stop for lunch Australian Memorial on which are inscribed Australian General Hospital was located, to at the Anzac Rest, Polygon Wood see the the names of just under 11,000 Australians pay our respects to the 2016 Australians who German bunkers captured by the Australians, who have no known grave.. We head into died of wounds and are laid to rest in the and the Memorial, before nearby Corbie for a spot of lunch. Much of Communal Cemetery. returning to Ypres. After our return there will Corbie survived the War, this is where King be an opportunity to visit St Georges Church Henry V crossed the river Somme on his Day 10 - 27th August (B,D) in Ypres. This evening we attend the Last way to Azincourt (Agincourt). We return to Amiens to Ypres Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. the town of Villers Bretonneux to visit the This morning we head North to Belgium Victoria School and Museum, then SW out and Ypres. On the way we will stop at the Day 13 - 30th August (B) of the town to visit and pass the spot where preserved battlefield of Vimy Ridge and We head off to Zonnebeke this morning, the first ‘tank on tank’ combat took place. see the incredible scarred landscape and the Roulers railway and the Passchendaele We will drive through the woods in the same the Canadian Memorial. We will stop in the Memorial Museum, which tells the story direction as the famous attack by the 13th famous town of Armentieres where you will of the third battle of Ypres, one of the Brigade on the night of the 24th April 1918. have free time for lunch before continuing to bloodiest battles of the Great War. The We will visit Adelaide Cemetery from where Fromelles, where we will visit the Museum, Museum keeps the memory of the battle Australia recovered her Unknown Warrior, and the Pheasant Wood Cemetery. We cross alive through images, films, artefacts and and then continue to Le Hamel, the site of the battlefield to the Australian Memorial underground dugouts. Lunch in Zonnebeke. General Monash’s brilliant victory attack of Park with its imposing Cobbers statue, and We continue to Broodseinde Ridge, the 4th July 1918.We will then return to Amiens, VC Corner which is the only all Australian scene of a remarkable Australian victory in passing en route the Crash site of the Cemetery in France. We pass through the following bite and hold advance after Red Baron and the Australian 3rd Division Fleurbaix and on to Ypres where you will the battle of Polygon Wood. Then visit Tyne Memorial. check into your hotel. Tonight we have dinner Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth in a local restaurant. Cemetery in the world. We complete the Day 8 - 25th August (B) 4 nights Novotel Ypres day with a visit to Langemark Cemetery, the Today we visit the imposing Historical de la largest German Cemetery in the Salient. Grande Guerre Museum in Péronne and the Day 11 - 28th August (B) 2nd Australian Division Memorial at Mont The Ypres Salient was a bulge in the front Day 14 - 31st August (B,D) St Quentin. After lunch in Peronne we will line that curved around the city of Ypres, Ypres to Ermenonville make our way to the Australian now called Ieper. The Salient was fiercely After checking out of the hotel, we depart Memorial , Bellicourt and the Riqueval Tunnel fought over from October 1914 right through Ypres on the final leg of our journey. We visit , part of the notorious Hindenberg Line, until late 1918 and it included the appalling Poperinge, a town that lay behind the lines which was captured by Australian troops at Passchendaele campaign of 1917. This and was well loved by all the troops. We will the end of September 1918. We will visit morning you will visit Toronto Avenue visit Talbot House and Museum, see the town Montbrehain, scene of the final actions of the Cemetery, which is the only all-Australian cell and shooting post . You will have free AIF in WW1. cemetery in Belgium, you will see the time for lunch before arriving in Ermenonville sites and have lunch in for our final night. Tonight we have a farewell Day 9 - 26th August (B) Ploegsteert better known as “Plug Street” dinner in a local restaurant. We depart the hotel on route to Wavans to the diggers. We continue onto Messines 1 night Chateau D’Ermenonville Cemetery where we will visit the graves Ridge, where the infantry assault on the 7th of the flying Aces Major McCudden VC, June 1917, was preceded by the explosion Day 15 - 1st September (B) DSO and Bar, MC and Bar, MM and Flight of 19 huge mines along the German front Ermenonville to Paris to Australia Commander Robert Little DSO and Bar, DSC line. We will visit the Church and Crypt and This morning we check out of our hotel and Bar. Little was an Australian and remains Messines Visitors Centre before returning to for transfer to Paris for our flight back to the highest scoring Australian ace from Ypres. Australia. both wars. We then travel back in time to Day 16 – 2nd September October 1415, and visit the site of the Battle Day 12 - 29th August (B) Arrive Australia of Agincourt, and see the Historic Centre This morning we walk to the nearby Flanders there. We travel on to Montreuil where the Field Museum and then depart Ypres on our HQ of the BEF was located in WW1. You will coach. We will pass the infamous Hellfire have time for lunch and to look around, to Corner on route to the cratered landscape of www.zt.com.au Meet your Tour Escorts Peter has had a lifelong interest in history and cultures, and his talks reflect this interest. His overseas experience has been worldwide and he has been lucky enough to visit many of the places featured in his talks on • Gallipoli • Air and Naval War on Gallipoli • War in the Air 1914-1918 • ANZAC 1916, 1917 & 1918 • Maj Gen Pompey Elliott He has a wide knowledge of WW1, the Middle Ages, the early exploration of Australia, Australian Goldrush and Bushrangers. In 2015 he was one of a number of lecturers on the Zeppelin Travel 100th Anniversary Gallipoli Tour. He has been giving lectures on Princess and other cruise lines for many years. In addition he has also lectures at WEA in Sydney and to U3A, City Clubs and Probus Groups in NSW. Peter has also achieved degrees in Economics and Accounting, Food Technology, post graduate studies in econometrics, economic development, operations research and a Masters Degree in International Management and post retirement studies in military history and archaeology. He is the great nephew of Maj Gen Pompey Elliott. Colonel Robert Likeman, assisting Peter Headley on the tour.

New Cemetery at Pheasant Wood, Fromelles

TOUR COST: Twin Share $7,698*pp | Single $9,648*

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