Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours - USA

12/02/2024

From our historian Pete Smith in the Somme: The road and a garden in the centre of Beaulencourt appear to have fallen into what was almost certainly a large German dugout.
It’s going to be a big engineering job as the subsidence is quite extensive beyond the hole.

11/05/2024

Planning a trip to Europe? Join one of our Explorer Tours and spend four days visiting the Australian battlefields in France and Belgium. The only Australian tour that begins and ends in Paris! Departs weekly. https://battlefields.com.au/western-front-tours-2025/

10/12/2024

Australia's battlefield experts

10/12/2024

10/04/2024

Controversial history: the 1815 Museum at Waterloo displays the skeleton of a soldier who died during the battle, complete with the musket ball that killed him. What do you think?

09/25/2024

My first visit to Waterloo, and what a place! I thoroughly recommend it!

09/22/2024

The remains of a Mills gr***de that was likely thrown by an Australian into a German dugout in 1916. Found today on the old German front line at Pozieres.

09/21/2024

A brilliant visit to Bertangles Chateau, General Monash’s HQ in 1918 and the place where he was knighted by King George V.

09/20/2024

More great adventures on the battlefields of France and Belgium.

09/19/2024

A brilliant day exploring the battlefields of the Ypres Salient. So great to be back in Belgium on tour!

09/18/2024

It’s great to be back on the Western Front visiting some pretty special places. Today we visited Maissemy German Cemetery, in an isolated part of the 1918 battlefields. A moving spot.

09/17/2024

Ocassionally you have an experience on the battlefields that makes you think there’s more than just history going on. Today on the tour we visited Jeancourt Cemetery for a unique reason: two passengers on the tour, who didn’t know each other, had relatives from the same battalion, who were killed on the same day, buried near each other in the cemetery. That’s never happened before. And then the cemetery revealed an even more fascinating story - originally constructed next to a German field hospital, and used by the Germans to bury their own men, plus prisoners who died in their hands. And several of those prisoners were British men killed fighting alongside the Australians at the First Battle of Bullecourt in April 1917. Just an extraordinary day.

09/16/2024

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join me on the Western Front in 2025! Due to demand, we have launched a Western Front Signature Tour for Aug/Sep 2025! Exact dates to be confirmed, but register your interest by calling 1300880340. See you in Paris!

09/14/2024

Off to France to lead my Signature Tour with my talented assistant! See you in Paris!

09/10/2024

Final preparations for my Signature Tour, which begins in France next week! Can’t wait to meet all the wonderful people travelling with me on this special journey. See you in Paris!

09/06/2024

Don't miss my latest video, which gives you all the information you need to visit the battlefields of the ! Watch here: https://youtu.be/vo1LDZI5UZg?si=YLlypJtmfmWVQTNH

09/03/2024

Delighted to see my first column for The Last Post magazine in print, about exploring newly-discovered trenches at ! Check it out here: https://issuu.com/kirstiewyatt/docs/web-edition-33-the-last-post-magazine-2024-bravery

08/21/2024

The audio version of my latest book, 'Krithia', has been selected as a must-listen on Apple Books! Click here to download it. Enjoy! https://apple.co/must-listens