Maps & Guides to France & Belgium

Guides By Major & Mrs Holt

A Traveller’s Guide by Toni & Valmai Holt

Guide to the the Western Front

Used extensively during our travels, recommended.

British Gallantry Awards - Sherwood Foresters

By C Housley - helped the interest grow, mentions George Thougher (Granddad)

Many guides are available from the Cloth Hall Museum in Ypres.

Battlefields of The First World War -

By Peter Barton & Richard Holmes

Great book with Excellent photos and Refrence

Maps gives you all the route details you need for each tour.

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There are many books by Lyn Macdonald, many of them based upon factual events and interviews with Vetrans of the Great War.

“They Called it Passchendaele” is one of them.

Follow this link for more of her books

Richard Holmes is a War Historian and you may have seen the BBC series War Walks, this book accompanied the series.

Also available is the Video of the series.

Tommy by Richard Holmes

This give you an insight into the life of a Tommy

Excellent book - answers the question “Why Call them Tommy?”

Forgoton Voices

Superb accounts of the Great War, from the guys that were there.

Laugh & Cry whilst reading this book....

Professional Tour Guides

Tommy Trench tours

Follow the links for D.I.Y Battlefield Tours

Maps & Guides give’s you info to help along the way.

Battlefields - Maps & locations.

Great War Links - other sites dedicated to WW1 & 2

In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still singing, fly - scarce heard amid the guns below. we are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie - in Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow..... In Flanders fields....