Thame Remembers

Battlefield Tour leaves Friday

We will be visiting, in Belgium; Ypres (including the Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony on the Saturday evening), Poperinge, Hooge Crater and preserved battle field, Tyne Cot Memorial and cemetery, and Essex Farm Cemetery where John McRae wrote ”In Flander Fields”.

And in France; Theipval Memorial to the missing of the Somme, Beaumont Hamel preserved battlefield, Lochnagar Crater, Fricourt German Cemetery, Arras town, Wellington Tunnels, Vimy Canadian memorial and trenches, and the new Ring of Remembrance at Notre Dame de Lorette commemorating 580,000 men lost in the battles in this area.

There will also be time for shopping and lots of eating and drinking!

We will keep you posted on our progress.