There have been Seven official club tours, each of which has seen it's participants awarded a medal in recognition of their participation and quite frankly their ability to survive the 3-4 days away in each other's company!
2017
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| English Campaign Medal with 2017 Clasp. |
Taunton, England, 2017
A trip to follow the route of the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion, starting on the beach at Lyme Regis and touring to Keynsham, Norton St. Phillips and finally to the site of the Battle of Sedgemoor.The Nine were billeted in Taunton where Paul from our long standing Somerset Squadron joined us for dinner on Saturday night and gave a guided tour of Taunton on Sunday morning.
2015
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| Dutch Campaign Medal |
Netherlands, October 2015
Drove to Joe's Bridge where XXX Corps started the Garden offensive... or the other way round (Market)
Onto Eindhoven then Helmond for 1st night at Hotel St Lambert
Friday 23/10/15 – Son bridge, Grave, Nijmegan
Sat 24th – Overloon museum, Groesbeek Heights
Sun 25th – Arnhem bridge, Hartenstein hotel now museum
Mon 26th – back home stopped off at La Cupole, V2 site in France.
2013
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| English Campaign Medal with 2013 Clasp |
York, England October 2013
Sat 5th – Marston Moor – wandered off map!
Sun 6th – Fulford, Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire Air Museum Jorvik in York
Mon 7th – Towton, Leeds Armoury Museum
2011
Belgium, September/October 2011
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| Belgian Campaign Medal, with 2011 Clasp |
In addition on Day One we made a stop-off at the Oudenarde Battlefield to visit the site of one of Marlborough's big 4 battles in the Spanish War of Succession, followed by braving the streets of Brussels on the way to Leuven, where we based ourselves..
On the Saturday (Day Two) we travelled south to take in the Waterloo museums, Quatre Bras and Ligney.
Day Three saw us walk the Waterloo battlefield, fight our way through Belgian Classic Car rallyists - who were meeting at Mont St. Jean! and finally check out Wavre.
Photos <Here>
Day Four saw us travelling home....
2009
Scotland, March 2009
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| Scottish Campaign Medal |
Following day we toured the battlefield of Culloden, which has an excellent Visitor Centre and in the afternoon we visited Fort George for a bracing walk around this somewhat exposed establishment, followed by a visit to the battlefield of Audburn where john gave us a recap of the battle there.
On the Sunday we travelled south to visit Killiekranie where graham was able to give us an excellent talk on the key features of the battlefield there, followed by a visit to the Blair Athol estate.
All in all an excellent few days away and a great opportunity to sample local fayre...
2006
France, March 2006
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| On the roof of a Pillbox |
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| French Campaign Medal |
The Retreat from Liphook, February 2006
We travelled to Liphook to re-fight the Battle of Austerlitz nearly on it's Bi-Centennial. The SAS team took command of the French and we were pitted against an array of local players and other clubs that attended the game. Sad to say that we did not perform as well as Napoleon did in reality, we were soundly whooped!
Failure shall not be tolerated, thus no medals awarded!
More Photos <here>
2004
Belgium, October 2004
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| Lions Mount, Waterloo |
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| Belgium Campaign Medal |
Travelling home to blighty we stopped off at Ypres, took in the sites of the town and visited the Mennin Gate to pay respects to our WWI Tommies.
More Photos <here>
