With the Department of Veterans Affairs opening registration for the official 2025 Anzac Day Dawn Services at Gallipoli, and at Villers-Bretonneux on the Western Front, there is still time to book onto Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours’ commemorative Anzac Day 2025 tours. Tours include:
8-day Anzac Day at Gallipoli 2025, departs 20 April from Istanbul, including attendance at the official Anzac Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli. The itinerary explores the full 8-month Gallipoli campaign, visiting all the Australian and British sites such as the Anzac Sector, Cape Helles, Suvla Bay, and Krithia. A day excursion to Troy is also included.
10-day Anzac Day on the Western Front 2025, departs 19 April from Paris, including attendance at the official Anzac Day Dawn Service at Villers-Bretonneux and a special Anzac Day breakfast with the local townspeople of Hamel. The itinerary visits all the main Australian battlefield sites in the Ypres Salient, Flanders and the Somme, participation in the moving Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate, incredible behind the lines sites such as Naours Caves – where the Anzacs left their names in graffiti, Talbot House – an ‘everyman’s house’ in Flanders established by Australian-born Tubby Clayton and which provided a haven in hell from the mud and blood on the Western Front, local cultural and culinary experiences – including a day exploring Bruges, and more.
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