Baxters Battlefield Tours. A family run battlefield touring company offering a more personal feel to set & bespoke tours of the Great War & WW2 Battlefields
Surrey - United Kingdom
Joined March 2015
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A fantastic 4 days is over with our #RAF #Cadet group & huge thanks must go to @PhilNewmarch for his amazing work on our multiple personal stops,absolutely diff class.Thanks also to our driver Rich, & to the staff of 218 Squadron who trusted us & have been a pleasure to work with
And thats another wrap! A fascinating last day with our #RAF #Cadet group, starting with some free time & the all important chocolate shop! Then on to discuss #ShotAtDawn men & finishing with another 1st time personal stop! A fantastic group & a brilliant 4 days! But now.... home
A final good morning #Messines for this tour! A lovely 6.2 mile stroll to wake up the body before a long day ahead. Today its all about some free time, a personal stop & a topic that always creates discussion before we head home. But now, time for some breakfast before we roll!
An amazing finish to our last full day on the battlefields with our #RAF #Cadet group as they got to parade under the #MeninGate for the #LastPost ceremony. A proud moment for them all & something they will never forget. Thank you also to the @lastpostieper for all they do daily.
A busy day for our #RAF #Cadet group,with 2 personal stops to start the day at #Ploegsteert & Perth @CWGC,followed by stops at Essex Farm,Tyne Cot & Langemarck.The first part of the day finishing at #Hill62 for them to blow off some steam in the trenches before a special evening!
Good morning #Messines once again! A very nice 4.5 mile stroll as the sun comes up to what is set to be another fantastic day. Today its all about the #YpresSalient for our #RAF #Cadet group, but first .... breakfast time and then ... #LetsRoll
A fantastic day with our #RAF #Cadet group, with 3 personal stops at #Doullens, #Thiepval & #Pozieres. Other stops included the #SunkenLane, #NewfoundlandPark, and the always brilliant tour from Rocky at the #UlsterTower! A #Cuppa & bag of #Taytos may also have been included!
A very long but fantastic first day with our #RAF #Cadet group.Two first time personal visits at Lapugnoy & Philosophy @CWGC #cemeteries & this with a stop to discuss the #French losses & remembrance at #NotreDameDeLorette inbetween! Now definitely time for dinner & some rest!
And were off for the penultimate time this season! 4 days across the #YpresSalient & #Somme #battlefields with the #RAFCadets & Staff of 218 Sqd Rotherham + some extras. Several personal stops for various cadets ahead & some stops dif to the norm! Only one thing for it..#LetsRoll
#PicOfTheDay #Wimereux Communal @CWGC #Cemetery #PasDeCalais. A huge hospital centre throughout #WW1 the town was used again in #WW2 as the allieds fell back to #Dunkirk as a HQ.Headstones lay flat due to the sandy soil & 3038 men now stand easy here including Lt Col John McCrae
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#PicOfTheDay The seldom visited #Tourcoing (#PontNeuville) Communal @CWGC #Cemetery #Nord.
Started by the #Germans during #WW1 & then taken over by medical units of the allieds in November 1918, just over 200 men now stand easy here, including 68 #British prisoners of war. – at Tourcoing, France
#PicOfTheDay The very seldom visited Cretinier @CWGC #Cemetery #Wattrelos. The men here all fell in the area across the two world wars. 11 men of #WW1 rest here alongside 36 men of #WW2 who were holding the line as the retreat to #Dunkirk was in full flow.
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🇧🇪 Next year, we reach an extraordinary milestone - 100 years of commemoration at our Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper, Belgium.
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Good luck to these guys today who start their 500km + cycle of the #WesternFront, they are doing it for a fantastic #Charity, @CombatStress so If you have a spare pound please help them on this amazing adventure using the link below - @buskingbobby
justgiving.com/page/ianandda… – at Dover, England
#PicOfTheDay A lesser visited site, #Tournai Communal @CWGC #Cemetery Allied Ext. Started in Nov 1918 by medical units in the area, & added to after the #Armistice, 821 men now stand easy here including 117 #Russian burials & 52 #WWII burials of the men retreating to #Dunkirk
Today we remember all those who were caught up in, or affected by the events that changed the world forever, 25 years ago today. #WeWillRememberThem – at Lower Kingswood, South East
#PicOfTheDay #Bruyelle @CWGC War #Cemetery #Hainaut #Belgium. The 147 men resting here, bar one all fell as they protected the line while thousands of men retreated to the beaches of #Dunkirk. All killed in May 1940 they held the line on the river Sceldt,64 miles from the beaches – at Banstead, South East
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Approaching the coastal cities of Portsmouth and Plymouth from the sea, or cruising up the Medway towards Chatham, you will inevitably notice great stone obelisks emerging along the coast.
These powerful landmarks, topped with immense stone globes, stand sentinel over the coasts and docks from which Commonwealth seafarers set sail in the World Wars.
These stone monoliths are the Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chatham Naval Memorials: our chief sites for naval commemoration.
Elsewhere, in the heart of London, next to the iconic Tower of London and Tower Bridge, a bronze hall leading onto a quiet garden skirted by a memorial wall reveals itself: the Tower Hill Memorial, commemorating merchant seamen and fishermen who died serving the war effort in the World Wars.
Read our Naval Memorials Guide blog, link below.
