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90th ANNIVERSARY of the AEF & SERGEANT YORK – 30th SEPTEMBER to 6th OCTOBER 2008

 

Sgt.York Bust

ON this memorable journey across the Western Front Battlefields of France & Belgium , you will visit the ‘immortal’ Ypres Salient, where many thousands of British Commonwealth soldiers lost their lives between 1914 & 1918, and where the American 27th & 30th divisions fought during 1918.

 

You will see the killing fields of the Somme and learn of the Battle Of Bellinglise on the Hindenburg Line where the 30th ‘Old Hickory’ and the 27th New York Divisions fought in September 1918. You will witness the mystic forest of the Argonne where the American expeditionary forces were in action in 1918.

 

On this, the ninetieth anniversary of his feat, you may walk in the footsteps of the American hero sergeant Alvin C. York, of the 82nd Division who came from Pall Mall , Tennessee .

 

You will be guided over the ground by members of the Sergeant York Project who in 2006 discovered the site where York killed 21 and captured 132 German soldiers.  You will visit the site of the ‘Lost Battalion’ at Charlevaux and see the area where the outstanding bravery of just a few men, resisted a concentrated German attack for a period of five days.  For further information on the Sergeant York Project, please visit www.sergeantyorkproject.com

 

You will be present at the unveiling of the Sergeant York bust, chiselled from bronze by Dr. Sam Barnes, a native of Tennessee . You will meet the people of Chatel-Chehery, the village known to York and where the inhabitants suffered under German occupation for most of the Great War.

 

This is an all-inclusive tour not to be missed.

 

Places are limited so be sure to book early.

 

TOUR PROGRAMME & PRICES

 

For details of the journey itinerary and prices please click on the following link:

 

90th Commemorations of the AEF and Sergeant York Itinerary

 

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ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND

WHEN, after the Great War of 1914-1918, the Imperial War Graves Commission began its immense task of erecting headstones to mark the graves of Britain ’s dead, and those of the armed forces of her Empire, the next-of-kin of the deceased were offered the opportunity to have a personal epitaph added to the official information inscribed on each stone. The response from the bereaved families was extraordinary, bringing forth words which ranged from the homespun to the resoundingly lyrical and embraced a wide variety of sentiments.
 
Based on five years’ research, this new book by Trefor Jones presents a study of more than 1,500 epitaphs on headstones in the cemeteries of Belgium and France . These tributes to young British, Australian, Canadian, Newfoundlander and South African sons, husbands and brothers of that lost generation, buried far from home, provide an eloquent and moving demonstration of the power and beauty of language.
 
Although certain to interest students of the Great War, and the Western Front in particular, the book is not ‘about’ the war and will appeal equally to the general reader. It offers a compelling insight into the attitudes of the era, and a remarkable variety of responses to the loss of young men cut down in that unimaginably awful conflict, whose remains lie buried in the foreign soil on which they fought and died.
 

ISBN 978 0 9527458 2 2 235x170mm hardback with dust jacket.

224pp + 8pp colour B/w illustrations throughout.

 

Price £18.99.
 

To purchase, please click here to link through to The BBJ Collection Books section of our site for shopping online.

 

Alternatively, please download and complete an order form using the link below, and send with a sterling cheque made payable to The BBJ Collection Ltd.  For p&p, please add £2.50 per copy ( UK ), £5 per copy ( Europe ) or £9.50 per copy ( rest of world ).

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CARD PAYMENTS

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Longstaff Prints

The BBJ Collection are the exclusive producers and distributors of the 4 Will Longstaff Prints. View the Will Longstaff prints here.
 
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