Tours

Waterloo and Mons are both iconic battles fought almost one hundred years apart. The first marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the second the return of the British Army to continental Europe at the beginning of world War One. However, the allegiances have changed. We start by visiting Waterloo where the British and Prussians (Germans) fought together under...

This is the ideal tour for those who have never visited the battlefields of the Western Front. So let Rifleman Tours whet your appetite with this hugely informative two day guided battlefield tour. Flanders is a region in Belgium; the word Flanders means ‘flooded land’ and was originally a medieval state that contained parts of Belgium and Northern France. The main...

Ypres and the surrounding Salient is full of history and just waiting to be explored. So begin your love affair with this area like so many others by coming on this remarkable three day guided battlefield tour. People have been visiting Ypres in Belgium since the 1920s as a pilgrimage to pay their respects to the many thousands of British, Empire and German troops...

When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) sailed for Europe and gathered its forces at the town of Maubeuge south of the small town of Mons. It was 80,000 strong and consisted of two corps and one cavalry division and a very small army when compared with the Germans or the French. However, it had one advantage over the...

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, previously known as Imperial War Graves Commission, was formally established by Royal Charter on the 21 May 1917. Its brief was one of the most ambitious ever undertaken: to commemorate in perpetuity those who had died in the service of the British Empire in the Great War. After 100 years the Commission now cares for the...

Travel with Rifleman Tours to the Somme and experience the history of this battle. Hear the stories of the men that took part in what would become known as the worst days in Britain’s military history. The Battle of the Somme is famous for the casualties taken on the first day, 1st July 1916. However the battle raged for a further 141 days and saw these...