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In the footsteps is a family run company that concentrates on offering the personal touch that many of the larger tour operators are unable to achieve. Our aim is to provide you with a top quality battlefield tour service and we pride ourselves on giving our customers a package that is fantastic value, an experience that they will cherish forever.

With In the footsteps you know you are in safe hands. We were the first Battlefield Tour operator to be awarded membership of the European Tour Operators Association and the first to be given the coveted status of Supporter of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

Our Tour Options

Tailor-made Tours - A tailor-made tour is ideal for those wishing to “follow in the footsteps of heroes” looking at those battles in which they have an interest. They visit the many battlefields of Northwest Europe ranging from the Medieval battlefields of the Hundred Years War and those of the Waterloo Campaign in 1815, to the 1914-18 Great War and the Second World War battles of the 20th Century. They have an itinerary that is compiled just for you, so that you can see what you want to see and visit the battlefield sites that are important to you.

Genealogy Tours - A genealogy tour is one that is more specialised and designed specifically for you. These battlefield tours are ideal for those wishing to “follow in the footsteps” of an ancestor or relative looking at their battles and the places where they fought. A genealogy tour usually requires a degree of research in order to define the itinerary and the itinerary is designed so that you can see where your ancestors fought and visit the battlefield sites associated with them.

Our tailor-made and genealogy tour options are suitable for individuals, couples and small groups.

Group Tours - Our group tour service is ideal for large groups such as a: school, military unit, comrades association, club or organisation that want to tour the battlefields. These battlefield tours can be organised to suit the requirements of the group, in much the same way as a tailor-made tour for individuals or small groups, and can be customised to follow a theme to enable the group to achieve a specific aim.

A tour with In the footsteps takes you on a journey that is a truly unique experience
and will leave you with memories that will last forever.

Each tour that we provide can be especially designed to cater for your very own requirements and we give you the opportunity to see the specific places that are important to you. So whatever you want to do, we can build an itinerary that ensures you get to see what you want to see not just what the tour operator wants to show you.

An In the footsteps tour gives you the flexibility to go where you want, when you want and stay in the grade of accommodation you prefer. So whether you want a battlefield tour of D-Day and the Beaches of Normandy or Arnhem and Operation MARKET GARDEN in WW2 or a battlefield tour to the Somme, Ypres, Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, Mons, Verdun on the Western Front of the 1914-18 Great War or even visit one of the older battlefields we can design a tour that is right for you.

We have previously arranged battlefield tours for American, Australian, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Singaporean and South African visitors.

To find out more about one of our In the footsteps battlefield tours visit our tour pages and put yourself in control.

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Places Previously Visited

The Western Front of the 1914-18 Great War: -

• Mons and the Great Retreat.
  
• The Ypres Salient including: -
• The First Battle of Ypres and the forming of the salient.
• The Second Battle of Ypres and the First Gas Attacks along the Gravenstafel Ridge and the Battle for Sint Juliaan.
• The Battle of Messines and the various actions along the Messines Ridge.
• The Third Battle of Ypres including the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, the Battle of Langemarck, the Battle of Menin Road, the Battle of Polygon Wood, the Battle of Broodseinde, the Battle of Poelcappelle and the Battles for Passchendaele.
• The German Spring Offensive of 1918 and the 'Last Hundred Days' including the Battle of the Lys and Mont Kemmel.


• The Battles of the Somme including: -
• The First Day of the Somme, 1st July 1916, the Bloodiest Day in the history of the British Army - Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Authuille, Ovillers, La Boisselle, Fricourt, Mametz and Montauban.
• The 1916 Battles of the Somme - the Battle of Albert, Mametz Wood, the Battle of Bazentin Ridge, the Battle of Pozieres, the Battle of Delville Wood, the Battle of High Wood, the Battle of Guillemont, the Battle of Ginchy, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the Battle of Morval, the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, the Battle of Le Transloy, the Battle of the Ancre Heights and the Battle of the Ancre.
• The 1917 Battle of Cambrai.
• The 1918 German Spring Offensive and the 'Last Hundred Days' - the 1918 Battle of Amiens, including Villers-Bretonneux, Le Hamel and Le Quesnel; the Advance to the Hindenburg Line including Mont St Quentin, the Canal du Nord, the St Quentin Canal and Cambrai; the breaking of the Hindenburg Line and the Advance to Mons.


• The Battles of Arras including: -
• The 1917 battles - the First Battle of the Scarpe, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the First Battle of Bullecourt, the Battle of Lagnicourt, the Second Battle of the Scarpe, the Battle of Arleux, the Second Battle of Bullecourt and the Third Battle of the Scarpe.
• The 1918 German Spring Offensive and the 'Last Hundred Days' - the Battle of the Scarpe and the Battle of Drocourt-Queant.


• The Battles further South including: -
• The Battle of Verdun.
• The Chemin de Dames.
• The Battle of Soissons.
• The Meuse-Argonne.

The battlefields of the Second World War: -

• The American, British and Canadian D-Day Landing Beaches.
• The American and British D-Day Airborne Landing Zones.
• The Battle of Normandy, including the British in the capture of Caen and the Americans during the capture of St Lo and the Normandy Breakout.
• Operation MARKET GARDEN, including the British XXX Corps as they fought their way up Hell's Highway, the Amercian Airborne securing the route and the British Airborne at the Bridge Too Far at Arnhem.
• The liberation of the Netherlands, including the Canadians in the Battle of the Scheldt and the 53rd (Welsh) at 's-Hertogenbosch.
• The Battle of the Bulge, including the German assault in the north, the route followed by Kampfe Grouppe Peiper, the defence of Bastosgne and it's relief by Patton's Third Army.
• The Rhine Crossings at Remagen, Wesel and Oppenheim.
• The Battle of Berlin.
• Auschwitz and Krackow.

The older battlefields: -

• 1066 - Hastings and Normandy.


• The Hundred Years War.
• Crecy.
• Agincourt.


• The 1815 Waterloo Campaign.
• Ligny.
• Quatre Bras .
• Waterloo.

Our Insurance

We have full liability and professional indemnity insurance and our fully comprehensive vehicle insurance covers us for our tour operator activities.

Dedication

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

An extract from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon

This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of those who fought for their country so that we may enjoy the freedoms we have today.

Thank you for visiting our website, we hope that you find its content useful and enjoyable.

For more information please email us at info@inthefootsteps.com