MONDAY 4th August 2014 marks the Centenary of the outbreak of the Great War.
On 4th August until Saturday 9th August, I will lead a coach party from Scotland to the First World War Battlefields in Belgium and France.
En route, we will visit the Shuttleworth Collection of First War aircraft. In London we will have dinner in the Lloyd George Room in Whitehall and hear the chimes of Big Ben at 11.00pm marking the Centenary. In Belgium we will visit Mons where the British Army fired the first (and the last) shots in the War.
We will follow the retreat of the ‘Old Contemptibles’ from Mons through Le Cateau, Landrecies, St Quentin to the Marne. We will see the Armistice Carriage at Compiegne, visit the grave of Wilfred Owen, see the trench lines of the Somme and Flanders, and attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate, in Ypres.
We will visit sites associated with the Scottish Regiments and a full explanation will be given of particular battles and events. We have a few places left and I will be happy to supply full details to your readers if they contact me at Beach Cote, Golf House Road, Dunbar, East Lothian EH42 1LS telephone 01368 866826 or mobile 07710 270640.
DAVID RAW
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