+ 44 (0)1438 989129
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+ 44 (0)1438 989129
Tour Dates: 26 April - 1 May 2021

Price Per Person:£1400:00 (£1200:00 Non flight) £140:00 Single Supplement   

Hotels: 3* Hotel in Thessaloniki (1 night), 3* Hotel Siris (1night) 4* Hotel Hit, Doiran (3 nights)
 

Salonika Campaign Society Walking Tour 2021

After our popular 2017 tour and the numerous military units we have led to this stunning battlefield, with the help of recognised authority on the Campaign and author of Under the Devil's Eye, Alan Wakefield, Battle Honours are pleased to announce this small group walking tour in connection with the Salonika Campaign Society to a somewhat overlooked campaign.

Offering an indepth study of the Salonika Front through a series of walks, visits to memorials, cemeteries and forgotten trenchlines the tour will be jointly led by authors and guides Julian Whippy and Alan Wakefield.

Limited to just 20 participants the tour will cover the 1916 battles of Karajakois, Tumbitza Farm as well as the fighting at Doiran and the pursuit to the Strumica Valley as we follow in the footsteps of 10th Irish Division, the 60th London Division and 22nd, 26th, 27th 29th Divisions who played a key role in this often overlooked campaign of the Great War.

If you are not a member of the Salonika Campaign Society, you can still book and your membership to the society will be included by Battle Honours.  
          

Tour Itinerary

Day 1 

Meet as a group at London Gatwick for scheduled flights to Thessaloniki, visits to Mika CWGC & Lembet Road CWGC, study of the Birdgcage Line - overnight Thessoloniki 

Day 2  

Study of the Struma Valley Campaign and associatied Cemeteries/memorials, we consider the various actions at Tumbitza Farm, specifically the 27th Division attacks. We visit the British battery positions at Triada (Dragos) as well as the Bulgarian positions at Palio Castro - overnight Hotel Siris (Serres) 

Day 3 

Leaving Serres we travel to Dojran and visit the British Salonika Force Memorial at Colonial Hill and Doiran CWGC, we then look at the fighting of La Tortue and the Petite Couronne including a study of the actions of the 7th Wiltshires & 7th Ox and Bucks Light Infantry before arriving at the Hotel Hit for 3 nights    
 

Day 4

Today is a full days study of the Doiran fighting including the T Line bunker positions of the Bulgarians, the 34th Infantry Regiment Memorial and the battle for Pip Ridge, this full days walking conquers the Devil's Eye as we climb (at a sensible pace) the Grand Couronne, we end with a boat trip across lake Doiran. Overnight Hotel Hit  
 

Day 5 

Focussing on the winter operations of the 10th Irish Division at Kosturino we start at their battlefield memorial and frontline positions on Kosturino Ridge. The afternoon is spent walking over the Rocky Peak to Ormanli village. Overnight at the Hotel Hit

Day 6  

Transfer back to Thessaloniki and onwards to London Gatwick