About our Business
In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS
In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS was conceived by Major Ian R Gumm TD with the aim of providing top quality bespoke battlefield tours for individuals, couples and small groups who prefer the personal attention and comfort that travelling in a small party affords.
Our Bespoke Battlefield Tour ServiceWhether you want to: -
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Follow in the footsteps of an ancestor, relative or particular military unit.
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Visit the Western Front battlefields at Mons, Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Cambrai of the 1914-18 Great War.
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Walk along the Normandy beaches of UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO and SWORD where the Allied 21st Army landed on D-Day 6th June 1944.
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See the British Airborne landing sites at Pegasus Bridge or the Ameican Airborne sites near Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
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Follow the route of Operation MARKET GARDEN to the "Bridge Too Far" at Arnhem.
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Visit the older battlefields of Crecy, Agincourt and Waterloo.
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Pay your respects at the CWGC war graves and/or ABMC American Military Cemetery.
An In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS bespoke battlefield tour puts you in control. On one of our personalised tours you get to see what you want not just what the tour operator wants to show you.
Each bespoke and customised battlefield tour that we are able to provide is especially designed in order to cater for your very own requirements giving you the chance to see specific places of historical importance that bear a relationship with your family’s past and personal history. As well as providing bespoke battle tours, we are also able to offer a range of set date battlefield tours which take place in Western Europe. Some of the sites that we visit on these particular battlefield tours include the battlefields of the Ypres Salient, the famous battlefields of the Waterloo Campaign and the Medieval battlefields of Crecy and Agincourt. In addition to these popular battlefield tours, we also operate Normandy battlefield tours which involves a guided tour of the site where the D-Day Landing took place on the sixth of June in 1944.
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“The flexibility offered was superb, everything I asked for was met – and the personal touch was great because that was what we needed”. Adrienne, London, England |
To find out more about one of our In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS bespoke battlefield tours visit our Bespoke Tours page and put yourself in control.
Our Set Date Tours
In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS and Battlefield Tours 4u offer a range of set date battlefield tours to Western Europe including the sites of D-Day and Market Garden from the Second World War, The Somme and Ypres of the Western Front in the First World War, the Waterloo Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars and the English Longbow tour covering Crecy and Agincourt. For one of our set date tours visit our Set Tours page.
