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The Campaign Trail

An approximate record of some of the battle sites I have visited over the decades, dull reading for all but those most nerdish.

 

December 1990 – Hawaii

 

  • Pearl Harbour

 

May 2004 – The USA

 

  • Chickamauga, Tennessee

 

May 2010 – The Great War

 

  • Ypres
  • Waterloo
  • Lochnagar
  • The Somme

 

May 2012 – D-Day

 

  • Arromanches
  • Bayeaux
  • Pointe du Hoc
  • Chateau de la Muette, near Boulogne, where German General Wilhelm Falley was killed
  • Gold Beach
  • Omaha Beach
  • Caen Memorial Gardens

 

May 2014 – London & Surrey

 

  • Charterhouse – AA Drew’s Bells
  • HMS Belfast

 

March 2015

 

  • Portsmouth – Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and HMS Alliance (submarine)

 

May 2016 – The Bulge & the Rhine

 

  • Remagen
  • Koblenz
  • Bois de Sainte-Gertrude, Tenneville, Belgium
  • Bavigne, Lac de la Haute-Sûre, Luxembourg.
  • Bastogne
  • Malmedy
  • Liège
  • Dinant

 

March 2017 – London & Greenwich

 

  • Imperial War Museum
  • Greenwich and National Maritime Museum
  • Cutty Sark
  • Hendon Aerodrome (RAF), Colindale, London

 

April 2018 – Cobh & Kinsale

 

  • Cobh
  • Charles Fort
  • Haubowline Island and LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61)
  • Great Island (river cruise)

 

June 2018 – Malta

 

  • Rabat
  • Mdina
  • Mosta
  • Naxxar
  • Lazzaretto on Manoel Island
  • Fort St Elmo

 

November 2019 – Bavaria

  • Schloss Nymphenberg
  • Munich

 

November 2019 – Northern Ireland

 

  • Cave Hill
  • Downpatrick
  • Ballynahinch, 1798
  • Belfast

 

December 2020

 

  • The Battle of the Larch Hill Wood (Ulster contingent only)

 

November 2021 – Berlin & Potsdam

 

  • German Resistance Memorial Centre
  • Topography of Terror
  • Checkpoint Charlie
  • Lustgarten
  • Potsdam
  • Soviet War Museum

 

July 2022 – France (Langeudoc)

 

October 2022 – Boyne

 

  • Drogheda
  • The Boyne
  • Hill of Slane

 

Naples, 2023

May 2023 – Italy

 

  • Naples
  • Herculaneum
  • Salerno
  • Monte Cassino

 

May 2024 – Wexford

  • Vinegar Hill
  • The Hook Peninsula
  • Ruined Norman village of Clonmines
  • Dungannon Fort
  • Replica of D-Day Beaches
  • Johnstown Castle (Agricultural Museum)
  • Coolgreany Cemetery

 

November 2024 – London

 

  • The Caledonian Club
  • British Museum
  • Special Services Club, Knightsbridge (Saul David)

 

May 2025 – Gallipoli and Istanbul

 

  • Çanakkale & the Dardanelles Strait
  • Seddelbahr, Plugge’s Plateau and Anzac Cove
  • Basilica Cistern
  • Bosphorus & Golden Horn River Cruise

 

July 2025 – Languedoc

 

 

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