Two tours on offer
The Revd Alex. Cheevers, a former canon of Belfast cathedral, has been leading tours to the battlefields of Europe for the last eight years. In 2011 he will be leading two different tours. Both tours are by coach and both last for eight days.
The Somme and D Day Landing Areas of Normandy
10th September – 17th September, 2011
This favourite tour is now in its eight year. Visiting the Ulster Tower and Thiepval Memorial, trenches and cemeteries of the First World. Then moving on to Normandy and covering the D Day Air Landing Areas of the 6th Airborne Division, Pegasus Bridge and Ranville Cemetery. All five landing beaches are visited, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and utah. See Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. Lunch in Arromanches. Visit the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach. See the only bunkers that still have the original guns in them. Visit the American Air Landing areas. See John Steele still hanging from the church tower! And so much more. The free day on this tour is in Caen, at the heart of the Battle of Normandy, close to the Bayeux Tapestry.
A Tribute to the Royal Ulster Rifles
1st May – 8th May, 2011
This is a brand new tour for 2011. It visits the places where the Royal Ulster Rifles were in action in Europe in the Second World War – from holding the line at Louvain in Belgium in 1940, to evacuation from Dunkirk – being at the Battle of the Bulge and later landing by glider in Operation Varsity at the Crossing of the Rhine. Walk the ground the Rifles walked Tribute is also paid in several cemeteries where RUR men now lie in the corner of a foreign field. This tour also spends a day in the area of the Battle of the Bulge. Step by step it follows the RUR’s progress and actions. On the RUR tour there is one day completely free in Cologne in Germany.
If you would like full details of these tours, of if you have any questions, please phone Alex on 028 9145 0701