Tour of the Somme (France) : Battlefields, monuments, tourism

For the past 11 years the Battlefields Experience has being providing fully guided tours to visitors from all over the world. Your guided tour is exactly that, YOUR TOUR if you don't see what you are looking for in our selection of itineraries then we can put together a bespoke tour for you. The Battlefields Experience is administered by me, Jackie BEDFORD and Rod my husband is our main guide. Rod has been in the Grenadier Guards for 19 Years. including three years at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an instructor. Rod continued his passion for Military History taking groups of Police officers to the battlefields during another 19 years with Kent Police, England. This enables Rod to interpret the ground before you and expalin not only what happened and where but also why. As someone once told me, "a Battlefield is just a field without a guide"

Rod and Jackie's careers with the Police and the Army have enabled them to recieve formal training in not only health and safety, risk assesment and personal security, but Rod is also an advanced driver, which means you literrally could not be in safer hands!

As a Member of Somme Battlefields Partnership, a label of quality administered and regulated by the Department of Tourism, Chambre de Commerce and the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, we are fully licensed and insured to carry fare paying passengers. Our documention is carried in our vehicle and is available at all times for inspection.

"We would like to thank you once again for a moving and memorable visit to the Somme. You made us extremely welcome with a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The food was great and you both treated us as friends and not just customers. My father and I were fascinated throughout the three days."
P and A Gibbs, 2004