$9,850 15 Day, In-depth military study tour (Limited to 12 people)

Gallipoli & The Western Front

Dates: 22 April to 6 May (2027 & 2028)

Join historian and bestselling author Hugh Dolan as we follow in the footsteps of the Anzacs. This tour will literally take you by boat to ANZAC Cove all the way through to Amiens on the Western Front.

Beware! This is not a cemetery tour but analysis with original maps and orders in hand, across each of the battlefields.

We will wade onto ANZAC Cove at dawn, slipping on the shingle, to breakfast on Plugges Plateau. This campaign was an amphibious assault so we will use a vessel to approach Cape Helles, Brighton Beach, Gaba Tepe, Nibrunessi Point and Ari Burnu. In the evenings we are guests of Gallipoli House in the tiny village of Boghali, just over the crest from the cove.

In the evenings we will sit on a wide veranda with a Turkish Effes beer, Cappadocian wine, pide, kofta, mezze, baklava and discuss the next day’s battlefield walk. During the day we stand in original trenches and look across from the Nek to Lone Pine. We will use both a vessel and a vehicle to reach inaccessible places for our members who have difficulty walking. Points only small, specialised groups such as ours are capable of doing.

As we move on from Turkey, we will take up the Anzac story in London travelling over to the Western Front. In both France and Belgium, we will identify trenches – perhaps where a family member once stood in July 1916? – and “hop the bags” to run across to the windmill at Pozières or towards OG2 trenches east of Bullecourt in May 1917.

We will start from the mustering tapes and walk across potato fields to the enemy front line. Often cement German strong points remain showing the location of the secondary line of defence. We will stoop to gouge shrapnel balls from the cloying mud beneath our feet. In the evenings we will spread ourselves across a table in one of the many estaminees where the ANZACs enjoyed local beer, moules marinieres & pommes frites and discuss the next day’s battlefield walk. We are guests of Talbot House, an original Everyman’s club from 1916.

We will follow in the footsteps of our ANZACs all the way from 25 April 1915 to 11 November 1918. 

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