If you’re from the UK, you’ll know that this Sunday 8 November 2009 is Remembrance Sunday , when we honour and remember the living and dead who fought for Britain in both the First and Second world wars as well as more recent conflicts such as Korea, The Faulklands, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. Because the First World War ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the 11 November is remembered as Armistice Day and on the Sunday closest to this date Remembrance events are held in town centres all around the country, including the one attended by the Royal family at the Cenotaph in London. If you have any relatives who served in the armed forces or even fought in the two world wars, you may be interested to hear about the Royal British Legion’s travel arm, called Poppy Travel that organises pilgrimages and tours to key battlefields in Europe and all over the world. You can visit the beaches where the Allied Forces landed in Normandy on D-day, the landing sites in Gallipoli in Turkey, as well as Singapore, Korea and South Africa. My husband and his father, both of whom served in the armed forces recently took a trip to Arnhem in the Netherlands on a trip with Poppy Travel which relived the events of Operation Market Garden. You may remember it through the film, ‘A Bridge too far’ in which 10,000 men parachuted into Arnhem in a push to capture the bridges of Holland’s Great rivers and enable an advance into Germany.
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Battlefield Tours for Remembrance Sunday
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