Following last year’s successful trip to France and Flanders to visit the graves of the nine Bradford City players killed in the Great War, we are returning to France again this year to follow in the footsteps of the Bradford Pals. We are leaving Bradford on 31 May returning on 3 June.
This year our itinerary is:
Thursday 31 May
Depart
Bradford Interchange 10.22
Arrive
Lille 17.26
Night in Lille
Friday 1 June
Lochnagar Crater
Thiepval/Mill Road Cemetery
Auchonvillers (lunch)
Newfoundland Park Memorial
Serre No.1 Cemetery/Euston Road Cemetery/Sheffield Memorial Park
Bus les Artois (where the two Pals shot for desertion drank the night they disappeared). The bar is being specially opened for us.
Night in Albert
Saturday 2 June
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval
Harry Ruck, Bradford Northern RLFC
Vieille-Chapelle
Shiot at dawn Bradford Pals
Herbert Crimmins and Arthur Wild.
Lestrem/Le Paradis
The village of Lestrem where the Pals were executed is the final resting place of 97 British soldiers from 1940 who were massacred by the SS.
Night at Lille
Sunday 3 June
Depart
Lille 13.34
Arrive
Bradford Interchange 18.36
Friday, 20 April 2012
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