At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender
Our 2024 tour took us back to Waterloo and a look at Operation Dynamo around Dunkirk...
Bruges, battlefields, buttes and beers
After a few members opted out of the planned return to Ypres, the only affordable option for this year (with only two of us traveling)...
All aboard for Arras
In late April this year, we’ll be boarding the Eurostar again, but this time heading to a new location – the northern French city of...
Euro stars - a Belgian waffle
The 2018 tour took in the Armistice Centenary commemorations in Flanders, marking 100 years since the war on the Western Front came to an...
Tour guide confirmed
Just under two weeks to go to the 2018 Armistice Centenary tour to Ypres, and we've now had confirmation from Battlefield Exploration...
Finding Private Appleby
I first spotted my ‘namesake’ Private Frank Appleby – many of you will already know my nickname from schooldays is Frank – on the...
Tour de Western Front by Eurostar
This year’s tour – Leger’s All Quiet On The Western Front - began at the more civilised time of 7.30am, with a smaller party than usual –...
Letting the train take the strain
Next month - 21 April to be precise – sees a detachment of the Driffield Historical (Battlefields) Society make their annual trip to the...
Ypres 1918 – 2018 – All Systems Go!
It may seem a long way off at the moment, but anyone who’s been within shelling distance of Ypres in the last few years will realise that...
Going Undergound
Another year, and another tour has come and gone, and once again a grand time was had by all in the Belgian and French countryside on...
