The Spring Offensive 1918 | Virtual Battlefield Tour #5

Members of The Western Front Association will be aware of the 'Virtual Tours' we have invested in, as an antidote to the inability of being able to visit the battlefields. These tours are being provided through a partnership with our friends at Battle Guide Virtual Tours.
These tours 'sold out' very rapidly and approximately sixty members are enjoying these 'live' experiences on a fortnightly basis. The tours are being staged in a chronological sequence, with a tour of a 1914 battlefield being the first to be undertaken, with 1915, 1916, 1917 and two covering 1918 in the pipeline.
As promised, we are making these available to members for free (after the live event) but with a slight 'time lag' after each tour. What you see here is a three minute 'clip' of tour number 5.
The full virtual tour (which lasts for an hour) is available to WFA members only and is accessible via the 'members area' on the website. (www.westernfrontassociation.com)
In order to view this in full, you will need to log in to the website using your personal log in details. Once you have done so, simply click onto 'Virtual Tours'.
Non members are encouraged to join The Western Front Association to see this and other 'virtual tours' which will be produced over coming weeks. This forms part of our very attractive 'package' for members.
For the men involved, the 21 March 1918 marked the high water mark of total war, in just over five hours over a million shells were fired before, under the cover of a thick blanket of fog, waves of storm troopers, assaulting and follow up divisions swarmed over the British lines. In the gentle rolling landscape between Villers Guislain and Épehy a number of outstanding last-ditch defensive actions took place and our virtual battlefield tour will study the South African Brigade at Gauche Wood, the Leicester's Brigade of the 21st Division in front of Pigeon Ravine and the eventual defence of the village of Épehy where cemeteries, memorials, bunkers, observation posts and the scars of war remain over a century on.
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