Visit the Interpretative Centre at Thiepval to set the scene for the tour and the Memorial to the British missing
which contains just under 73,000 names of soldiers never identified. Hawthorn Ridge mine crater which was famously filmed during the Great War. The Newfoundland Memorial and it's original preserved battlefield with trenches on both the Allied and German side.
Lunch at the Ulster Tower Memorial.
Visit the 1st Australian Division Memorial at Pozieres and the site of the Gibraltar pillbox fortification. Then we
will pay our respects to the many Australian soldiers who are buried in Pozieres military cemetery from the fight
for Pozieres, their first major engagement since arriving in France. Close by is the Windmill site, the highest part of the Somme battlefield, where a memorial stands honouring the 23,000 fallen Australians. In the locality is the grave of Private Russ Bosisto from Adelaide who was found 80 years after the battle. Here too is the Tank Memorial closely positioned to where the tanks went into battle for the first time in world history.
On our way down the Pozieres heights we will visit the site of Moo Cow farm which saw fierce fighting in August
and September 1916. Delville Wood and the beautiful memorial and museum to the South African Brigade.
Fricourt German cemetery where the famous Red Baron was buried for a period before being moved to Germany.
Overnight stay in Amiens at Holiday Inn Amiens or similar.
