Presentation by Andy Lock

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] Anglia Tours – our goal:

‘ To provide an outstanding educational experience. ’

At Anglia we care about our customers, our staff, the places we visit, the stories we tell and the organisations we work with. Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School Battlefield tour to the Ypres Salient, the Somme and Arras, 8-10 July 2018

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The Ypres Salient

“I should like to acquire the whole of the ruins of Ypres. A more sacred place for the British race does not exist in the world”.

Winston Churchill Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] The Salient Early Actions - 1914 Attrition - 1917 Lijssenthoek CWGC

Introduction to the Great War Ethos of the Cemeteries

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] The role of women in the Great War The World at War

The role of Empire troops Bayernwald Preserved trench system Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] The reality of life in the trenches:

How long? Routine Food? Rats & lice Sleep? Trench fighting As it was… Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Tyne Cot CWGC Ypres Cloth Hall

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] The Menin Gate Some of the 54,000 names of men missing in the Salient The Last Post Ceremony - since 1928 Reflection

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] Every group lays a wreath

(End of day one) The Somme Serre – Sheffield Memorial Park The Plan Kitchener Armies and Pals Battalions “Fix Bayonets” 0730 – Zero Hour!

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] “We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying”.

A “Kitchener” soldier 1968 Newfoundland Memorial Park

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Auchonvillers

Site of a former dressing station The Royal Army Medical Corps and system of transport Show and Tell session Ulster Tower 36th (Ulster) Division at the Schwaben Redoubt Lochnagar Crater The largest man-made explosion prior to the invention of atomic weapons to the Missing Thiepval Memorial to the Missing Records the names of 72,000 men whose bodies have not been recovered and identified End of day two

Arras, April 1917 Wellington Quarries Vimy Ridge Memorial

Handy hints!

Do's and don’ts, travel arrangements… Travel arrangements

Sunday 8 July Coach arrival at School: 0500 Coach Departure: 0515 Outbound Shuttle: 0820

Tuesday 10 July Inbound Shuttle: 1920 Arrive at School: c.2100 Safety!

Clothing

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] It has been known to rain !!! Accommodation Mesen Peace Village – International Youth Hostel Mesen Peace Village International Youth Hostel Purpose-built hostel, opened June 2006. Students in 4-bed chalets, own towels required Transport

In 1914 it would have been…. But you will have….

Maybe not this exact coach! But one with a toilet and DVD player Food Food

First meal provided is dinner on Day 1

Last meal provided is lunch on Day 3

Opportunity to buy food at Eurotunnel or Services on way back Drink Currency

Easy – Euros!

Spending money - £10-15 / €10-15 per day should suffice, depending on…

(Please have in advance!) Chocolate Shopping Relatives Don't take too much!! Nearly at the end…

Mobile Phones iPods / MP3 / games consoles Cameras Adapters Safety – listen to guide at all times Traffic! Richard Burgess

Richard serves as a Detective Sergeant with Essex Police. He has worked covertly on a national and international level within the intelligence community and on covert serious and organised crime investigation and disruption. He is a nationally accredited source handler and former anti and counter surveillance operative. He particularly enjoys ethics and ‘faith’ based tours looking at moral and theological issues. “Do you only arrange tours for students?”

Anglia Tours Ltd | T: 01245 231991 | E: [email protected] Thank you Any questions?

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