Recent News Items from Battlefield Tours
Below you will find a list of recent news items from Matt Limb Battlefield Tours. To view the full item click on the Read More link. |
 In Search of a Victoria Cross
Walking the battlefields with the Chairman of Victoria Cross Trust was moving for us both, especially as we laid a poppy wreath on the anniversary of a recipient, Sgt Cairns, the last Victoria Cross to be awarded to the Canadians in World War One, just a few days before the war ended ................... Click Here to Read More
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 A Soldiers Diary return to The Somme Battlefield
Soldiers often keep a diary of their time in the trenches and record there thoughts and experiences, here is a diary that found its way back to the Somme battlefield on a Harley Davidson motorcycle ..... Click Here to Read More
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 Lance Corporal Jack Nisbet Remembered & Honoured
Lance Corporal Jack Nisbet in the Royal Engineers, after landing in Le Harve in 1915 he soon had his first experience of the Great War just a few days later on the banks of the Yser canal. Read hoe his Great Grandson, a serving officer, went back to remember him at the Last post ceremony - Click Here to Read More |
 Harley-Davidson in Normandy
Matt Limb Battlefield Tours Limited recently had the great pleasure of taking a group of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle owners, or HOGs,to France and conducted a dedicated battlefield tour of the Normandy campaign of World War Two - Click Here to Read More
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 A Vietnam Veteran on The Western Front
Former soldiers returning to the battlefield is the very history and origins of battlefield tours dating back over 200 years to what was know as Staff Rides; but to take a veteran of The Vietnam War to the battles of World War One was highly memorable - Click Here to Read More |
 Grandson Returns to The Western Front .... With his daughter!
‘ …. The problem with Matt Limb Battlefield Tours, and the whole experience, is that you get hooked …’ That is what Mike Stokes said following his battlefield tour in search of the place where his Grandfather was taken Prisoner of War; so Mike again joined me as we travelled back to France and Belgium, this time accompanied by his daughter! – Click Here to Read More |
 Wonder & Awe at the Normandy Battlefield
The motivation and drive for doing a battlefield tour can be varied and for many reasons; to visit the campaigns and battles of past family members, to pay respect to the deeds of past generations of soldiers and to look where your own regiment, or brigade, took part in key actions are some. But, recently I had a most enjoyable battlefield tour to Normandy with Joe O'Carroll and his wife Colleen from South Africa, they simply wanted to understand what happened there and to help understand the soldiers whom fought there -
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 Dickin Medal for Search Dog Treo
I recently had the great privilege of witnessing the presentation of a Dickin Medal, the animals 'Victoria Cross' to Treo, for saving many lives in Afghanistan with the British Army - Click Here to Read More |
 In Search of the World War One Poets
Amber's interest in World War One started at University with officers like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, so she now wanted to 'find' the World War One poets. Siegfried Sassoon asked in 1918, ‘Have you Forgotten Yet?’ and Amber adds it is absolutely vital that these men and their stories are kept alive by us - Click to Read More |
 In Search of a Grandfather
We recently had two great days on a battlefield tours with Mr Bill Wicks from New Zealand; he wanted to visit the Somme and find his Grandfather's name on the New Zealand Memorial; and if possible, to find the location he went missing in the latter days on the Somme campaign - Click Here to Read More |
 Couple Returns to 'find' Fathers from Omaha Beach
To visit the place a relative, or loved one, fought and to try to understand what they endured is one of the most popular reasons for a battlefield tour, and recently it was this reason that Mike and Claudia Houpt, along with friends, travelled from Mississippi to Normandy then to Omaha Beach - Click Here to Read More |
 A Grandson Returns
Mike wanted to visit the area in France where his Grandfather was taken prisoner; with this in mind Mike asked us to put a bespoke battlefield tour together for him as he traveled across France and Belgium - Click Here to Read More |
 The Menin Gate & The Last Post Ceremony
Since the 1920s at exactly 2000 hours, or 8:00 pm, every night the sound of the bugle can be heard in the medieval Belgium town of Ypres, as the local fireman play The Last Post under The Menin Gate. Every night they salute the many soldiers who fell during the Great War of 1914 to 1918 - Click Here to Read More |
 Richard Todd Returns to Normandy
We recently had the great pleasure of taking a battlefield tour to Normandy made special by our guest, the actor and soldier, Mr Richard Todd - Click Here to Read More |
 OBE for Matt Limb
Mr Matt Limb, the founder and director of Matt Limb Battlefield Tours Ltd, was made an OBE in the operational honours list for his support to the Iraq War - Click Here to Read More |
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