Our day ends at the Navarin Farm Memorial to the American and French soldiers of the Champagne we’ll learn of the story of a former British Colonel, who having been court martialled served as a Stretcher Bearer here in the French Foreign legion.įront row seats can be reserved for £14pp (up to 6 days duration), £22pp (7 & 8 days duration) and £25pp (9 days duration and over) ![]() You can walk the trenches, go in the dugouts and see the dressing station. In the afternoon, we explore the Champagne battlefields with a visit to the trenches at Main de Massiges: here a whole trench system has been reconstructed on a hillside alongside original mine craters with sandbags, duckboards and firing positions. We take an included lunch at the Romagne War Museum, viewing the incredible private collection of militaria. Today we’ll explore the battlefields east of Reims, starting in the Argonne sector with a visit to the American Memorial at Montfaucon, before paying our respects at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery – the largest US War Cemetery in Europe with more than 14,000 graves. We continue across the Chemin des Dames back to Reims. This is where the French and Germans fought each other in a quarry deep underground. We then go beneath the battlefield into the ‘Caverne du Dragon’ – the Dragon’s Cave. After lunch in Soissons, where you can visit the Soissons Memorial to the Missing which commemorates British soldiers who fell in 1918, we discover the memorials and bunkers of the Moulin de Laffaux, a major French battle site throughout the war. Here, we come onto the Chemin des Dames, the high ground above Reims, and visit the French cemetery and memorial chapel. We see the church and British graves at Soupir and Vendresse, and the memorial at Cerny. ![]() We’ll see the memorial and life-sized models of French tanks, before looking at the ‘Old Contemptibles’ in the fighting here in 1914 – the men of the British Army. ![]() We start this morning just outside Reims, on the spot where the French Army used tanks for the first time in April 1917 as part of the attack on the Chemin des Dames.
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