If you want to follow the footsteps of the 15th Battalion CEF, this page will help you plan your visit. Of course, where you go and what you see depends on your interests, the time you have, your budget and how you are travelling. It will be very difficult to see many of the WW 1 sites unless you have a vehicle.
Visit the Canada Remembers Guide to see itineraries for both WW 1 and WW 2. These itineraries do not cover the 15th Battalion CEF combat areas. If you want to concentrate your visit on WW 1 and the 15th Battalion in particular we recommend that you spend a few days in each of Ypres, Belgium and Arras, France and use each of these cities as a base to visit nearby sites. It’s a 1 – 1½ hour drive from Ypres to Arras.
We strongly recommend that you take a tablet or laptop with internet access. A phone doesn’t have a large enough screen.
Please contact the Project Team if you are going to the WW 1 battlefields. We may ask you to take particular photos or add a cemetery card. As well, we can help you get a supply of paper Canadian flags which you can use to demonstrate “our guys” are not forgotten.
The bullet points on the tour pages are laid out in a logical driving sequence. The links to the memorials erected by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project will take you to a page which will give you precise location information together with some historical context. The links to the various cemeteries will take you to a page that lists all of the known Highlanders buried there and also gives you detailed location instructions.
Click an image below to see details of local tours. We have provided up to three days of tours in each city.
