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Driving times and distances from Dunkirk Destination Distance in km / m Time in hours Nord-Pas de Calais Lille 72 / 45 0.49 St. Omer 52 / 32 0.33 Arras 122 / 76 1.21 Cambrai 143 / 89 1.33 Etaples 104 / 87 1.07 The Somme Thiepval 153 / 95 1.43 Albert 157 / 97 1.45 Normandy Caen 388 / 241 3.32 Bayeux 416 / 258 3.54 Destination Distance in km / m Time in hours Holland Arnhem 332 / 206 3.00 Champagne-Ardenne Reims 268 / 166 2.33 Chalons-en-Champagne 326 / 202 3.09 Flanders Brussels 159 / 99 1.34 Ypres 54 / 33.5 0.43 Southern Belgium Mons 145 / 90 1.31 La Roche en Ardenne 295 / 183 3.05 Source: www.theaa.com www.dfds.co.uk
Memories of the World Wars History can bring stories of past events to life. Museums, cemeteries, battlefields, forts and gun emplacements recapture the events of two World Wars fought on the fields and in the towns of North-West Europe. Many families can trace relatives who bravely lost their lives fighting for their country and it can be a rewarding, if emotional, experience to visit the burial sites or the Menin Gate at Ypres where the names of those whose bodies were never recovered are remembered in perpetuity. These battlefields are easily visited from Britain and this guide covers most of the main places of interest in Northern France, Belgium and Holland. Those wanting to go further back in time will discover the relics of the day in 1815 when the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. CONTENTS Conflict in Europe 2 Royal British Legion, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Military Vehicles 3 Nord-Pas de Calais 4 Flanders 8 Normandy 12 Holland 18 Champagne-Ardenne 20 The Somme 22 Southern Belgium 26 Motoring information 29 Images: Rex Features ‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.’ John McCrae Canadian Army Medical Corps 8 December 1915 Died in Base Hospital 1918 TEL: 08715 747218 1
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Page 9 and 10: Historical Museum of the Second Wor
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Page 13 and 14: The Rampart Route Talbot House and
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Page 19 and 20: Bayeux War Cemetery, Bayeux With it
Page 21 and 22: National Liberation Museum 1944-45,
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Page 27 and 28: The Lochnagar Crater, La Boisselle
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