Somme Battlefield Tours

World War One (WW1/WWI) Battlefield Tours.

Williamsomme Tours offer bespoke four day tours of The Great War in Northern France and Belgium - longer battlefield tours can be arranged according to your special interests. We particularly specialise in the 1916-1918 Somme battlefields.  Visits further afield relating to other battles of the First World War may include; Verdun, The Marne, Cambrai, The Aisne, Vimy Ridge, The Ypres Salient, Arras, The United States Memorials and Fromelles. Many of the tours have proved to have been of particular interest to visitors from Canada, Australia and the USA.

The Battle of The Somme

During World War One, The Battle of the Somme lasted nearly 5 months with 1.2 million men being killed, wounded, or lost in action. July 1st 1916 was the worst day in British Military history - nearly 20,000 men were killed in around 2 hours.

On August 8th 1918; the beginning of The Battle of Amiens, the Germans were forced to retreat from The Somme near Villers Bretonneux. On November 11th this awful war came to an end.

You are invited to visit preserved battlefields, trenches, war memorials, museums and other sites connected with The Great War. For more information about my World War One and Somme tours, click here.