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Explore Canada’s role in World War I on this full-day Somme battlefield tour from Arras.
Explore tunnels and trenches used by Canadian forces during the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 with a guide.
Visit the Courcelette Canadian Memorial, Neuville St.
Vaast Canadian N°2 Cemetery, and Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, and learn of the many lives laid down in battle.
After lunch, visit WWI battle trenches at the Beaumont Hamel New Foundland Memorial Park.
Tour includes round-trip travel from your Arras hotel.
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Tour Description & Additional Info:
You will stand near the memorial and have a view on the Douai plain.
Visit one of the tunnels, the Grange Tunnel, in which Canadian troops stood hours before the battle.
You will stand at one of the cemeteries on the ridge, see some preserved trenches and spend some time in the newly built visitor centre.
See where the Canadian Unknown Soldier was exhumed from.
Stand on the battlefields where Canadians fought at the fall of 1916.
This memorial is the largest built by the CWGC, it is bearing the names 72 000 soldiers who have no known grave.
See the crater, the result of an undergound explosion triggered on the morning of 1st July 1916.
You will stand near the Caribu and walk on the preserved battlefield from the allied to the German lines passing near the "Danger Tree", "Y Ravine" and the memorial to the 51st Highland division before having a look the New Foundland Visitor Centre.
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum two adults per booking
- This Tour is Rated 5 Stars based on 7 valid reviews on VIATOR
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