Route Map and Itinerary
On this trip, The Rector and Chaplain will visit 70 different sites in Italy, France and Belgium. They will commemorate a total of 111 Exonians who fell during the First World War.
Below is an interactive map, showing the sites and the itinerary the Rector and Chaplain will follow.
Itinerary.
September 1st.
- Rector departs for Genoa.
- Site Visit:
Savona Memorial G.C.D.Hill
September 2nd.
- Site Visit:
Bordighera British Cemetery W.M.W.Scott - Overnight: Nice.
September 3rd.
- TGV to Chalons-en-Champagne.
- Chaplain joins Rector.
- Overnight: Suippes.
September 4th.
- Route 1:
Suippes National Cemetery G.E.Bernheim Vailly British Cemetery C.Henry Raperie British Cemetery D.B.Bannatyne La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial C.B.Leechman, A.G.R.J. Smith-Sligo Sablonnieres New Communal J.Norwood VC
- Overnight: Le Havre.
September 5th.
- Route 2:
Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre H.T. Wells St. Sever Cemetery Extn, Rouen H.W.Green Namps-au-Val British Cemetery F.A.Single
- Overnight: Amiens.
September 6th.
- Route 3:
St.Pierre Cemetery, Amiens F.W.Marston La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie C.M.Williams Harponville Communal Cemetery Extn. E.B.Lees Thiepval Memorial H.B.K.Allpass, V.L.S.Bedwell, R.H.Gordon, L.A.Harries-Jones, J.Mackreath, D.R.D.O’Daly, O.G.Payne, P.D.Robinson, F.G.Shirreff, E.S.C.Tulloch, J.O.Turnbull, H.Woodhead Warlencourt British Cemetery H.G.R.Prior Becourt Military Cemetery H.R.Freston Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becort W.H.Wyatt Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz L.P.Abbott Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval C.L.Duff-Gordon, L.W.Parry-Crooke
- Overnight: Bapaume.
September 7th.
- Route 4:
Morval British Cemetery T.C.H.Berry Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt C.T.Gill Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery V.H.Isaacs Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy W.A.White Fifteen Ravine Cemetery, Villers-Plouich O.A.Holden Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny P.H.Broughton-Adderley H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust St. Mein R.H.Garrard Croisilles British Cemetery W.A.Barr Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt B.J.Tolhurst
- Overnight: Arras.
September 8th.
- Route 5:
Tilloy British Cemetery C.J.Darley-Waddilove Agny Military Cemetery D.T.Cousins Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras A.V. Shirley (Flying Services Memorial); A.C. Judd, T.H. King, N.H. Roberts, C. Warnington (Arras Memorial), A.B.Colthurst, R.C.Green Duisans British Cemetery T.Cooke Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt G.G.Bellamy Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi R.Willis Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery V.Souchez Loos British Cemetery R.E.W.Maxwell, W.J.Chambers Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos D.H.Brown
- Overnight: Lens.
September 9th.
- Route 6:
Fosse 7 Military Cemetery, Mazingarbe R.E.Harvey Vermelles British Cemetery M.R.Gibson, C.G.Jelf Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery J.C.Grant Bethune Town Cemetery G.Davies, R.W.R.Gramshaw Lapugnoy Military Cemetery L.B.Hibbs Busnes Communal Cemetery A.C.Foster Chocques Military Cemetery E.W.Marshall Le Touret Military Cemetery H.L.Bayfield, C.A.W.Crichton. Le Touret Memorial- T.H.Galton Rue Du Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix R.G.Breece-Bowen Rue Petillon military Cemetery, Fleurbaix H.A.C.Sim Rue David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix F.W.Littlewood
- Overnight: Fleurbaix
September 10th.
- Route 7:
Ploegsteert Memorial R.D.MacGregor Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extn. Nord G.C.S.Pratt Godewaersvelde British Cemetery B.W.Ashworth Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery W.S.Eames, S.A.C.Gibson Poperinghe New Military Cemetery A.E.Sanders Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery A.M.Gordon, S.A.Rodney-Ricketts, F.E.Warburton Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery H.Parry Bard Cottage A.E.K.Slingsby, H.M.Williams Essex Farm Cemetery A.L.Johnson Menin Gate R.B.Arnell,W.Bastard,W.N.L.Boyd, A.B.Hodge, A.C.Magor
- Overnight: Ypres
September 11th:
- Route 8:
Ypres Resevoir Cemetery S.G.P.Cruddas, J.S.Burto Belgian Batter Corner E.J.Solomon Bedford House Cemetery C.F.Balleine Railway Dugouts Burial Ground E.N.Moore Sanctuary Wood Cemetery R.K.Stirling Hooge Crater Cemetery W.J.Dobson Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery L.C.T.Manlove Tyne Cot Memorial C.H.Bowman, R.Cozens-Hardy, H.H.Goodman Poelcapelle British Cemetery W.R.Brown
- Overnight: Boulogne-sur-Mer
September 12th.
- Route 9:
Wimereux Communal Cemetery C.Lamb Coxyde Military Cemetery A.J.L.O’Beirne
- Rector and Chaplain Return to UK.
Amazing and good that you should be doing this. Just come back from Tyne Cot and Ypres. If there are any out of the way graves in UK that need a visit, let me know. The war memorial in the chapel is so impressive/disturbing.
Bill Roberts 52-56
What an excellent undertaking. I visited Thiepval with my husband just last weekend – I wish I had known about the old Exonians whose names are on the memorial in order to have found them.