A trip to the Battlefields of WWI with an expert guide is an evocative way to enable groups to understand this poetry more deeply. They will visit the locations and better appreciate the conditions within which they were written. Your guide will discuss your precise studies and will tailor your visits accordingly.
- In Flanders Fields Museum
Here pupils can begin to get a feel for the sights and sounds of the trenches and no man's land, through the eyes of a soldier. - Living History Experience
If you wish your group to experience something of the life of a soldier, perhaps to inspire their own 'War Poetry', we can offer groups the chance to spend the day re-enacting an actual attack which took place in October 1917. They will wear the uniform, eat authentic food and work as a platoon. - Menin Gate
The group will experience the moving Last Post Ceremony. - Ors
The site of Wilfred Owen's grave. - Somme Battlefields Tour
Your tour could include a visit to Serre, between cemetery 1 and 2, the site of the dug out that inspired Wilfred Owen's poem "The Sentry". You may also choose to visit Mametz, an area that inspired the poetry and prose of Sassoon and Robert Graves, and that also contains the grave of William Hodgson. Other sites of interest may include Newfoundlanders' Memorial, Delville Wood, Historial of the Great War in Péronne, Lochnagar Crater or Thiepval. - Ypres Battlefields Tour
You may wish to include Essex Farm where John McCrae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields", Hooge Crater, Dixmuide (the 'Trench of Death'), Passchendaele Museum, Sanctuary Wood, Tyne Cot cemetery or Langemarck.
