The planning for each battlefield tour to the First World War Western Front or the World War Two Normandy invasion battle sites starts with a blank piece of paper. Our first consideration is the requests of our guests. Each guest will have all of his/her specific interests woven into a balanced itinerary.

 

We then commence our research into the individual or unit whose details are supplied to us. It may be necessary for us to contact a guest and discuss the individual, action or regimental unit of interest, so that we may obtain further information or discuss our findings. This enables us to build a picture and story of the subject of our research. We will obtain information from the National Archives from one or more of the war diaries, medal rolls, soldiers' and officers' papers that are held there. Our researcher Trefor Jones is a master at discovering the information we seek through his own knowledge and his well-crafted ability to cross-refer the information at the National Archives. The searching for that extra peice of information from the public records requires considerable skill and expertise and Trefor has these qualities in abundance. We have our own extensive library of regimental histories, trench maps and historical writings. Sometimes we have the soldier's individual account of certain events and letters written home. Gradually we piece together the usually very precise activities of the particular individual or unit in whom we have an interest. We study the battlefield trench maps, identify the ground and locate the cemetery or memorial we shall visit to pay our respects. As a result of our research various pieces of information can come to hand that were hitherto undiscovered.