Commemorative Battlefield Tours endeavour to supply excellent guided battlefield tours to a multitude of destinations around the world for individuals, couples and groups.
CBT have over 16 years’ proficiency in creating tours and are confident that we can create a battlefield tour that will surpass, your needs and expectations. Our guide is a Subject Matter Expert who has not just a wealth of experience delivering a package that is fantastic value but has over three decades of service in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. With his diligence and enthusiasm, he will deliver for you an experience that you will appreciate forever.
CBT believe in delivering a totally flexible service. All we require from you is where you want to go, when and for how long. We can guide you on one of our pre planned tours or we can and will create a tour specifically following your wishes and direction. You decide whatever is best for you.
Commemorate with CBT because what you want matters to us so much that your tour is designed for you, by you.
Commemorative Battlefield Tours for Small Groups and Individuals
Commemorative First World War Tours
Commemorate the battlefields of the First World War with one of our tours. We could lead you on tours to the better known battles such as the Somme, Marne, Vimy Ridge, Verdun or introduce you to individual topics such as Horace Iles an underage soldier killed at The Somme, the Indian & Chinese Labour Corps and James Crozier who was shot at dawn.
Commemorative Second World War Tours
Commemorate the battlefields of the Second World War with one of our WW2 tours. CBT have led tours for clients of many different nationalities around the battlefields of the Northwest Europe, Italy, and Malta. Their expert guide has a wealth of knowledge about the campaigns and battles of the Second World War. We could lead you on tours to the better-known battles such as D Day landings, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge or push out further afield to look at in Sicily, Italy and the battle for Monte Cassino.
Commemorative Genealogy Tours
Commemorate you ancestor, relative, family friend or man from your local area who fought in one of the many battlefields on a CBT Genealogy Tour. We can take you to the sites of the battles they fought in, deliver to you the full story of the battle and give you a better understanding of what they had to endure. Visit the sites associated with their battles. We will visit the areas where they encamped and visit and discuss the areas they fought. With your ideas and wishes we can design a tour that allows you to walk in their footsteps, see where they along with their pals fought and commemorate their memory at the memorials and CWGC Cemeteries associated with their battles.
Commemorative School Tours & Group Tours
As with all our Group Tours you are involved in creating the itinerary for your Battlefield Study Tour from the outset. I you would like to discuss and understand a unit or follow the route taken by former member of your group or students of your school, we will model your tour around the sites they were stationed and where they fought.
Our expert guide will use his 30 years of military experience to ensure that you have a full understanding the battles through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there. We will introduce your group or school to personnel letters home and discuss individual soldiers’ experiences. We will discuss trench art and poetry that the men involved turned to past their time and tell stories in the trenches.
Educationally, the most valuable battlefield trips available are where the itinery spreads the programme over 3 or 4 days. More time allows for a more comforting trip allowing more time to be spent at each setting visited. Alongside the learning experience, we ensure that visitors have time to experience some of the culture of the local area they will be visiting in a social and comfortable manner.
Commemorate with a Battlefield Tour designed for you, by you!
We don’t design your tour, you do! Your tour is designed using your inspirations to create itineraries that put specific battle sites in perspective of the larger conflict. The sites we stop at, and the order in which we visit at them, are selected by you, for their significance to you personally or to the battle or campaign we are discussing. At each area you will be briefed concisely why the precise site is significant and what occurred there.
Your accommodation is chosen whilst liaising with you as you decide what is the most important for you. The hotels location, town or city centre, convenience for the sites, ambience or history as some are on the battlefields and were involved in battles. We also organise meals for the group in places selected for their relevance to the tour. It is extremely evocative to take dinner looking out over the Cloth Hall in Ypres or have lunch in the cellars where the 'Wipers Times' was printed!
Your own CBT guide, who served over 30 years with the British Army, will lead you through the accounts of each battle and aim to put you in the position of the men who fought there. Your guide has a situational depth of knowledge, he is extremely enthusiastic to explain and discuss the site you are visiting and he has the ability to communicate the story in an interesting and engrossing way. Your guide is a member of the prestigious Guild of Battlefield Guides.
Knowledge is power but knowledge sharing is empowerment! This is something we believe strongly at CBT because despite the fact we may be visiting the same areas each time, we never presume we know every grain of information. We actively encourage guests to interject their own stories and knowledge about the site we are at or their family stories. We always aim to ensure that we can visit particular family graves or memorials close to the tour routes if requested so individual an conduct their own acts of commemoration.
Once back from the tour we usually find ourselves carrying out further research to gain answers to questions from guests that we could not answer, or information shared by guests at the time.
Flexibility is the keyword on our tours, we use your itineraries we design with your instructions as a handrail but usually can be altered to befit what you want to achieve. Dates and the type of accommodation used are always subject to availability but we always aim to be flexible to ensure we can oblige your dates and your budget.
Military Battlefield Studies
Battlefield studies were developed by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army, early in the nineteenth century. A Battlefield Study is an educational method that, bringing the historical conflict to life, aims to be an influential process of delivering historical lessons to the present-day, planning for military operations of most modern armies
Battlefield studies are classed as formal training and education, which are designed to provide the fundamental education to military units and formations and are therefore directed by the chain of command. We work closely with the chain of command to develop an itinery to ensure we deliver a battlefield study that meets expressed criteria
What does your tour include?
We tailor-make battlefield tours specific to your instructions and our discussions. Included in the tour are the services of our expert and dedicated tour guide and transport from your hotel around the battlefields and local area. If required, we can also organise all other arrangements except for flight.
We can: -
Source and book your accommodation in one of our preferred hotels or B & Bs, local to the area we will tour.
Book your travel from the UK on either a ferry crossings or Eurostar.
Organise to have your tour all-inclusive, full-board, half-board or bed and breakfast only, whichever you decide.
Coordinate your pick-up and return from:
Your hotel.
A train station near the tour location.
An airport in the UK or tour location.
Our UK port of departure or port of entry.
Or any other location that we agree.
We will include whatever you wish on your tailor-made specific CBT package. We are totally flexible in organising your itinery giving you total control of the tour and the desired outcomes.
CBT do not deploy on generic 52 seat coach tours, each package we provide is especially designed in conjunction with you to ensure we cater for your every requirement. We always ensure we afford you every opportunity to visit specific places that are of importance to you. We will design you an itinery to do whatever you wish to do, visit wherever you wish to visit and discuss whatever you want to discuss, not what we think you should do.
Commemorative Battlefield Tours have previously arranged battlefield tours for American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Fijian and South African visitors.
Our Insurance
We have full liability and professional indemnity insurance and our fully comprehensive vehicle insurance covers us for our tour operator activities.
