French Flanders & Loos Battlefield Tours
This area does not have the visual beauty of the Somme or the pathos of the Ypres Salient, but it contains areas of significance to the British who fought here throughout the war and the Australians, who first came into contact with the German defenders at Fromelles in July 1916.


French Flanders

 

A day tour in this area could include:

Ploegsteert and the Christmas Truce
Houplines and Bois Grenier
Festubert
Fromelles, including Pheasant Wood Cemetery
Neuve-Chapelle
Aubers
Laventie
Richebourg
Le Touret Memorial to the Missing
Loos, including the Double Crassier, Lone Tree and St Marys ADS Cemetery

 

Unexploded Shells on the Flanders Battlefield

 

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