Western Front 1916-18
2025 Tour Programme
14 day tour
23rd April to 6th May 2025
$5,100 per person share twin
$1045 single supplement.
All prices are in Australian Dollars
Cost of land only & may adjust to major fluctuations of the Australian Dollar to the Euro
- 14 Day, 13 Night programme best balanced for both Australian military history and tourist interest content. Lead & guided by an Australian team
- Quality, air conditioned transport with experienced professional driver
- Services of Tour Director, Military Historian and local guides as required
- Quality accommodation throughout – centrally located in all towns
- All breakfast and most lunches included
- All entrance fees as listed in the itinerary inc Anzac Day commemorations
- Authoritive, truthful historical content and commentary with an Australian focus – professionally researched and geographically accurate
- An experienced, practised team – 40 years of safe tour operations
- Family history and persons of interest assistance – free of charge
- 14 days duration – 12 full days touring the battlefields with a professional team, relaxed evenings in Belgium & France rural towns with the locals
Our programme is crafted for an exceptionally well informed and balanced tour of Australia’s military history in France and Belgium in The Great War – with the ability to assist with relatives’ research. We offer expert knowledge and commentary. Accurate, exploratory, but not overwhelming, and includes “tourist time” as well.
Tours - Land only. All tours subject to minimum numbers.
Correct as at 25 July 2024.
Book / Contact:
Call us today for detailed Tour Information or to BOOK A TOUR:
Phone: (08) 9446 9856
Mobile: 0428686899
You can send us an email: admin@kokoda.com.au
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Full 2025 Tour Programme / Itinerary
Western Front 1916-18 Anzac Day & Historical Tour
Wednesday 23 April to Tuesday 6 May 2025
Comprehensive, educational and entertaining programme for the history and the times of the AIF in France and Belgium during The Great War
Our programme is crafted for an exceptionally well informed and balanced tour of Australia’s military history in France and Belgium in The Great War – with the ability to assist with relatives’ research. We offer expert knowledge and commentary. Accurate, exploratory, but not overwhelming, and includes “tourist time” as well.
Day 1 – Arrival
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Gather at Roissy. Overnight stay
Day 2 – Coach pick up from Roissy Accommodation
Thursday 24 April
Le Hamel, battlefield visit
Site of Axford VC and Dalziell VC actions
Amiens, battlefield visit - Site of Gaby VC action
Gaby VC Cemetery visit
Site of McCarthy VC action and 11th Bn Lihons advance
Lunch Amiens
Visit Chateau Bertangles ( Monash’s HQ of note)
Check in and overnight in Amiens
Day 3 – Anzac Day
Friday 25 April
Depart Amiens approx 0330h, to Australian National Memorial Villers Bretonneux
Dawn Service : arrive at Memorial about 0400h. Service end about 0630h
End dawn Service, clear area about 0700h, return Amiens for breakfast
Free time until lunch
Depart Amiens 1230h
Bullecourt Little Cross Memorial 1320h; Battlefield Tour and Inspect
Noreuil Visit
Bullecourt Town Service commence 1500h
Australian Little Digger Memorial Service commence 1600h
Bullecourt Town commemoration celebration participate
Depart Bullecourt for Amiens about 1730h
Amiens arrival about 1820h, to accom and dinner
Overnight in Amiens
Day 4 – Amiens to Poperinge
Saturday 26 April
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery & identities
Flanders Fields Museum Ieper
Lunch
Poperinge execution site and cells
Talbot House
Check in Poperinge accommodation
Overnight in Poperinge
Day 5 – Messines areas
Sunday 27 April
Spanbroekmolen crater.
Messines Church – Freckleton VC memorial and Hitler painting
NZ Memorial – pill boxes and view of Messines attack
Irish Tower
Prowse Point, Mud Corner, 1914 Truce plaque
Messines, battlefield visit J Carroll VC site
Bethlehem Farm East Cemetery, 44th Bn connection
Messines, battlefield visit - 48th Bn area near Huns Walk
Messines, battlefield visit 12 and 13th Bde attacks
Lunch stop at Hooge Crater and Museum visit
Hill 60
Menin old city ramparts walk
Menin Gate Ceremony Option
Poperinge, to accommodation
Day 6 – Menin Road and Passchendaele
Monday 28 April
Menin Road and Hellfire Corner
Ypres, battlefield visit - Glencorse Wood and Nonne Bosschen attack
Ypres, battlefield visit - Polygon Wood attack
5th Division Memorial and Zonnebeke Five
Lunch at Café de Dreve
Passchendaele, battlefield and Museum visit
Tyne Cot visit
Overnight in Poperinge
(Menin Gate Ceremony additional option)
Day 7 – Langemarck & Brugges
Tuesday 29 April
Langemarck German Cemetery visit & battlefield
Brugges visit – Free Time (lunch and afternoon)
Overnight Poperinge
Day 8 – Fromelles to Peronne
Wednesday 30 April
Depart Poperinge
Merris (if necessary)
Armentieres Nursery Sector visit, Bridoux Salient
Black Anzacs
Fromelles, battlefield visit Cobbers’ Memorial, VC Corner
Lunch at Fromelles
Pheasant Wood Cemetery and Hitler Bunker
Vimy Ridge – Monument and preserved battlefield trenches
Drive to Peronne and check in. Suggest Historiale Museum visit.
Overnight Peronne
Day 9 – Pozieres Experience etc
Thursday 1 May
Lochnagar Crater visit.
Pozieres Trench, battlefield visit. 11th Bn attack
1st Division Memorial and site of K Trench visit
Pozieres, Windmill battlefield visit. 7th Brigade attack
Mouquet Farm, battlefield visit, scene of O’Meara VC
Lunch at Le Tommy’s
Thiepval Memorial and shop visit
Irish Tower
Beaumont Hamel – Newfoundland Memorial visit
Hebuterne, battlefield visit. – 16th Bn defence : to Amiens
Overnight, dinner in Peronne
Day 10 – Winter 1916
Friday 2 May
Delville Wood
AIF Burial Ground visit
The Maze, battlefield visit – 28th Bn attack
Stormy Trench, battlefield visit – scene of Harry Murray VC
Lunch in Bapaume
Lagnicourt/Boursies, battlefields visit - scene of Lt Pope VC
Overnight in Peronne
Day 11 – Albert & Villers Bretonneux
Saturday 3 May
Albert Museum visit
Dernacourt, battlefield visit
Morlancourt, battlefield visit
Lunch at La Boisselle
3rd Division Memorial
Red Baron scene visit
Sailly Laurette, battlefield visit
Villers-Bretonneux Australian Memorial visit (Sir John Monash Centre)
Victoria School, Adelaide Cemetery
Overnight Peronne
Day 12 – Breaking the Hindenburg Line
Sunday 4 May
2nd Division Memorial
Mont St Quentin, battlefield visit.
Hindenburg Outpost Line, battlefield visit. Last 11th and 16th Bn’s attacks
Le Verguier, battlefield visit. Scene of Woods VC
4th Division Memorial
Lunch at Riqueval
Somme American Memorial. Scene of 44th Bn last attack
Beaurevoir Line, battlefield visit. Scene of 28th Bn last attack
Estrees, scene of Wark VC. 32nd Bn last action.
Maissemy German Cemetery if time permits.
Overnight in Peronne
Day 13 – Armistice, Return to Paris
Monday 5 May
Relocate to Roissy
Visit Compiegne Railway carriage Museum – site of the Armistice Signatures to end The Great War
Overnight stay at Roissy.
Day 14 – Departures – tour end
Tuesday 6 May
Back to Home airports ( Australia ) or optional extension ( Paris etc )
14 days tour - with 12 days actually touring the battlefields with Australian military historian Neville Browning, a tour director and experienced local team
Small number of group participants
Includes Anzac Day Commemorations – Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux & afternoon service with the Bullecourt Village Community
Search assistance for relatives and persons of interest
No picnic or box meals and no war bore stuff ..
Relaxing evenings - dining as you choose in rural towns of Belgium and France
All breakfasts, 9 restaurant luncheons
Not Included : - expenses of a private nature : e.g.
Laundry & dry cleaning
Air travel to and from Australia
Transfers to and from airports
Telephone calls
Alcoholic drinks
Your travel insurance
Cost may adjust to major fluctuations of the Australian Dollar to the Euro
Programme may adjust to local circumstance changes
Book / Contact:
Call us today for detailed Tour Information or to BOOK A TOUR:
Phone: (08) 9446 9856
Mobile: 0428686899
You can send us an email: admin@kokoda.com.au
You can also use the form here on our contact page and we will reply as soon as we can.
View out YouTube video below. The 74 slides give an excellent overview of the tour, with photographs from previous Western Front Belgium and France tours.
World War One - The Western Front 1916 - 1918
The Australian Story – a crafted tour
The World War One The Western Front 1916 - 1918 tour itinerary is also available below in a slide format so you can read at your own leisure. Simply expand the size to full screen by clicking the three vertical dots at the bottom of the viewer:
Check out some of the feedback we've received about this tour:
Be it your ambition to trace the service of a relative, or a passion for history, the desires of a member of a military history tour are simple and yet of paramount importance. You will want to be well-fed and watered; well accommodated; and especially, safe and secure. But the most satisfying and rewarding aspect of your tour will be Frank Taylor’s unrivalled tour-guide knowledge of the battle grounds and campaigns of your choice. He has provided all of the above for me beyond my expectations on four occasions. I thoroughly endorse a tour with him.
-- Dr Peter Brune, military historian and author.
- We were very happy with the tour content and the staff. The information provided was insightful and invaluable for family history. Nice to have some free time such as Brugges.
Congratulations on a tour so well organised. - I want to sincerely thank you for a most memorable trip. I never expected in all my days to see where Dad was and now I fully realise the extent of the battles he was in. To walk where he walked and to see the fields, the trenches and the Pill Boxes, the Menin Gate and the Menin Road, Polygon Wood and the day at Johan's and all the rest was a dream fulfilled. With many, many thanks.
- Your main selling points of the tour to me were :
History: The Australian aspect of WW 1 conflict in Belgium and France. The details were accurate and clearly explained with commentary and diagrams.
Touring: Of the countryside villages and roads and local luncheons with local village people
Relaxation: After the tour day with drinks and food choices at good local venues.
Liked it all - learnt a lot and wetted appetite.
I would highly recommend the tour. Highly satisfied.
- Good organisation. Very friendly and helpful staff. Superb details and information about the history every day. The lunches were very good.
I was able to appreciate much better the Australian contribution in WW1. Books present the theory; visiting the battlefields allows a much better understanding of the conditions and what happened.
I was very satisfied - well planned tour and I was happy with the operation of the programme. - Enjoyed the tour far more than 6 years ago with another company. Much more information, explained well and saw a lot more of the fighting areas.
Touring arrangements were very good - The programme content and variety was mind blowing and done with precision! The standards of the staff could not have been better. The collective knowledge of the presenters was of a standard and with such depth that I would be surprised if any similar tours would ever be in the same league. The fine detail, intimate knowledge imparted to the client is something that sets you apart from the other "on the bus; off the bus" operators. The way information was imparted was never boring.
Amazing that after nearly 100 years there is still so much to see and that brings the whole tragic episode back to life.
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