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LEGER ARMISTICE TOUR - NOVEMBER 2018
In November 2018, I was once again recruited by Leger Holidays to guide some of their clients to the battlefields. This time, we visited the Ypres Salient to commemorate the Centenary of the Armistice. It was another very emotional event.
Leger Battlefield Tours Website
I am also a guide for Holts Tours who are a specialist battlefield tour company who provide tailor made tours for schools and colleges:
Holts Tours Website
One of the highlights of the day occurred in Tyne Cot Cemetery, where 2 German soldiers are buried next to each other. They were probably POW's killed by their shells. It was at their graves that we met a group of young German people who were, like us, remembering the fallen from all nations:
We visited several of the iconic locations around Ypres. On 11th November 1918, we watched the official ceremony at the Menin Gate and then I guided the party on a walking tour of the sites in Ypres city, including the Cloth Hall, the ramparts, St Georges' Church and the Reservoir Cemetery, a place that holds so many fascinating stories:
As the sun was setting on Ypres, I walked up to the Menin Road South Cemetery to pay my respects to a soldier I had researched for his family. As I turned around, I noticed a beautiful rainbow stretching across the battlefields of the Pilckem Ridge:
