Poppy petals honour the fallen
On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at 11am, 1918, the guns on the Western Front finally fell silent.
On November 11 this year, 89 years after the end of World War I travellers can stand by the Menin Gate in Ypres, listen as The Last Post is played and watch as poppy petals cascade from the memorial.
The ceremony is part of a 10 day tour of Western Front battlefields by Albatross Travel which begins in Paris and visits Lille, Arras, Bruges, Ypres, Amiens and Versailles.
The tour visits many of the battlefields on which Australian troops fought fiercely and suffered heavy casualties including Polygon Wood, Pozieres, Fromelles, Villiers-Bretonneux , Mont St Quentin and Adelaide Cemetery in Amiens where the remains of Australia’s Unknown Soldier were exhumed in 1993.
The tour begins on November 8 and the cost is $2589 per person twin share which includes nine nights first class/ superior tourist accommodation, all breakfasts, two lunches, four dinners, all excursions, entrance fees and the services of a special tour manager.
Airfares are extra and can be arranged at competitive rates.
For more information go to www.albatrosstravel.com or obtain our brochure by calling 1300 135 015 or email [email protected].
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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