The scene of initial success and then bloody stalemate in spring 1917, the Arras battlefields are often overlooked in favour of the Somme or Ypres, but they provide some stunning visual treats and as many stories as either of the two more well known battlefields.
You could easily spend two days in and around Arras, which, like Ypres was rebuilt in traditional style after the war.
One Day:
Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial and Park, including visit to Grange tunnels
Oppy Wood and Pollard VC action
Point du Jour and 9th Scottish Division Memorial
Arras Memorial to the Missing
Athies and Fampoux
Browns Copse Cemetery and Mackintosh VC
Monchy le Preux – 37th Division attack and Newfoundland Regiment defence
Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial and Park, including visit to Grange tunnels
Oppy Wood and Pollard VC action
Point du Jour and 9th Scottish Division Memorial
Arras Memorial to the Missing
Athies and Fampoux
Browns Copse Cemetery and Mackintosh VC
Monchy le Preux – 37th Division attack and Newfoundland Regiment defence
Second Day – to be incorporated
Further exploration of the Canadian battlefields around Thelus, Farbus and Arleux
German Cemetery and British Cemetery at St Laurent Blagny, including Issac Rosenberg, War Poet
Guemappe/ Wancourt
Cherisy
Heninel
Bullecourt
Wellington Tunnels
