The Great War In and Near The Salient

Tour and Seminar
Tuesday 8 April to Wednesday 16 April 2003

The Cloth Hall 1917 and Today

Organised by the U.S Branch of Western Front Association, and
Flanders Tours in Great Britain

The tour begins at and departs from the Brussels airport and ends there. The Group will be based in the **** Hotel Ariane in Ypres; renowned for its pleasant, helpful staff, good accommodation and excellent restaurant. All rooms have private facilities. The hotel is a short walk away from the centre of Ypres and the Menin Gate.

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On all tour days the coach will leave the hotel @ 08 30 & return to the hotel @ 18 30. We have included a small amount of walking on each day of the tour schedule to enable you to have a better understanding of the ground over which the battles were fought. You are not obliged to walk and may rest on the coach at any time. A car will be in attendance each day.

All meals included except for three dinners noted below.

Accommodation based on sharing a twin/double room, (single supplement applies),
All transport within Belgium
Museum entrance fees
Battlefield maps & related documents
Experienced guide/courier in attendance at all times

Hell Fire Corner

Program

Day 1, Tuesday 8th April: Meet Inward Flight at Brussels Airpor

Visit US Cemetery in Waeregem · Actions of 37th & 91st US Divisions · Audenarde memorial, bridge @ Slyne · Book into hotel, Lunch, Rest · Guided Tour of Ypres · Last Post at The Menin Gate · Dinner @ Ariane.

Days 2 & 3, Wednesday and Thursday 9th & 10th April: Seminar

Speakers list:

Tony Noyes: The Formation of the Salient; Mighty Wurlitzer, a superb combination of slides and music.
Historian and Stand To! editor Ann Clayton,: Double VC winner Noel Chavasse.
WFA Chairman Paul Hanson,: The CEF in the Salient 1915.
Historian Paul Reed,: Cemeteries of the Salient.
Piet Chielens, Director In Flanders Fields Museum,: The Literary Salient.
Aurel Sercu of the Diggers,: The Diggers.
Patrick Goossens, Chairman WFA Belgium,: The Belgian Army.
Jacques Ryckebosch, Director Talbot House,: Toc H.
Bert Heyvaert, University of Leuven ( Louvain ): The British in Ypres and Popheringe Between the Wars.
Dominiek Dendooven, IFFM,: The Indian Army.
Rik Opsommer, town archivist of Ieper, law faculty University of Ghent,: The Reconstruction of Ypres.

There will also be a tour of the Flanders Fields Museum.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

No Man's Land - Flanders

Day 4. Friday 11th April, Tour Resumes

Nieuport · Vladslo German Cemetery · Dixmude, Trench of Death · Houthulst Forest · Langemarck German Cemetery · Lunch at Passchendaele Villagee · Varlet Farm 1917 · Essex Farm & John McCrae · Noel Chavasse Grave · Toc H, Poperinghe · Dinner @ Ariane.

Day 5. Saturday 12th April

Loos 1915 · Loos Tunnels · Dud Corner · Lunch · La Couture Memorial · Neuve Chapelle, Indian Corps, 10/14 & 3/15 · Indian and Portuguese Memorials, Port Arthur · Aubers Ridge, 1915 · Festubert, 1915 · Fromelles · Dinner not included this evening

Day 6. Sunday 13th April

Ploegsteert Wood · Christmas Truce & Bruce Bairnsfather · Hill 63, the Catacombs · Hyde Park Corner Cemetery · Lunch @ Ploegsteert · Messines Ridge: Mining & Mine Craters; Successful 1917 Assault · Irish Tower · Kemmel Hill · Dinner not included this evening.

Day 7. Monday 14th April

Vierstraat, 27th & 30th US Divisions · St Eloi, 1914, 1915, 1917 · Bedford House Cemetery, Lankhof Chateau · The Bluff, 1916 · Hill 60, 1915 & 1917 · Lunch - location to be arranged · Zillebeke Cemetery · Zandvoorde · Gheluveldt · Nonne Boschen/Glencorse Woods 11th November 1914 · Dinner not included this evening.

Day 8. Tuesday 15th April

Railway Wood, 1915 · Kitchener's Wood: Gas Attack, 1915 · Hooge, 1915 · Lunch @ Hooge Chateau · Pilckem Ridge, 1917: First Three Months of 3rd Wipers; Death of Chavasse 31 July · Dochy Farm, 1917 · Tyne Cot Cemetery · To Passchendaele Villagee via Waterfields & Crest Farm, 1917 · ·Dinner at Ariane

Day 9. Wednesday 16th April; Return Home

Depart hotel Ariane for Brussels airport.

COSTS FOR SEMINAR

The Menin Gate
Site of the Last Post Ceremony

The exact charges for the event depend on the number of sign-ups and the actual costs in 2003. Here are the estimates as of August 2002 based on thirty persons.

Twin Room charges shared costs or single supplement for the whole tour and seminar:

Basic Cost	$904 / £572	Single Suppl.	$185 / £117
Estimated Cost As of August 2001 We Will Update Periodically

It will be possible to attend the seminar only for a cost of $150 / £94. Meals are included, rooms are not.

A deposit of 30 pounds or $42 is due with booking with the balance due eight weeks before the tour begins.

All bookings in dollars will be made through Paul Guthrie 109 N Mill Lexington, Kentucky 40507. For US inquiries contact Paul at paulguthrie@dspn.com or 859 2331426.

All bookings in pounds will be made through Flanders Tours PO Box 240 Ellington, Huntington PE28 OYE. For UK and Europe inquiries contact Flanders Tours at tntnoyes@aol.com 01480 890966. In the event you pay more than is called for with your final payment because numbers increase you will receive a refund.

Casualty in British Trench

Flanders Tours will not obtain travel insurance for non citizens of the UK. For cancellation information go to www.flanderstours.co.uk

All who may attend are urged to book or make an inquiry as soon as possible. As of August 19, 2002 we have 37 signed up and there are only 47 spaces available. Thanks.

Please ask those who may be interested to contact me at paulguthrie@dspn.com or 109 N Mill Lexington, KY 40507-1209 or 859 233 1426.

rev. 17 August 02