The Somme tourist board

Concert by Sydney Boys High School – “Marché Couvert” (Market Hall)
This concert will take place also on april 23rd at 2.30 pm and 08.00 pm in Péronne (Espace Mac Orlan)

- 9.00 am- 6.00 pm : Flights over the WW1 battlefields ** – Amiens-Glisy Airfield. Reservation at the Corbie Tourist Office
- 6.30 pm : Inauguration – WW1 photograph of the exhibition “Australian Memories” which includes 60 previously unpublished photographs from the archives of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and exclusively unveiled in 2008 at the Australian Embassy in France. The exhibition presents the chronological history of the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) in France from 1916 to 1918.
Plus book launch by author Margaret Clark for her book about Jo Hayne, an Australian soldier – “Salle Victoria” (Victoria Hall).

- 7:00 pm : Slide -show by the students of the “Collège Jacques Brel” in Villers-Bretonneux concerning their trip to Australia in 2009 – Market Hall

- 9.00 am - 6.00 pm : Flights over the WW1 battlefields ** – Amiens-Glisy Airfield. Reservation at the Corbie Tourist Office

- Hike “Memorial to Memorial”
8.30 am : Meeting point – Town Hall Square
8. 45 am : Transport by bus to the Australian National Memorial outside Villers-Bretonneux
9.00 am : Depart for the Australian Corps Memorial Park in Le Hamel – refreshments followed by the return by bus (Town Hall Square)
- 10.30 am : Australian rules football initiation for the children (consult the rules on www.footballaustralien.com) – Timmerman Stadium
- 2.30 pm : 2nd Anzac Cup, Australian rules football match (consult the rules on www.footballaustralien.com) –Timmerman Stadium

- 6 pm : Conference on the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, April 25th 1918 by Bernard Vaquez, member of the Franco-Australian Association plus book launch by author Margaret Clark for her book about Jo Hayne, an Australian soldier – Market Hall

Villers-Bretonneux :

Official Anzac Day Dawn Service – Australian National Memorial

- 3.30 am: Site of the memorial opens
- 5.15 am: Last time by which public are advised to arrive
- 5.30 am: Dawn Service commences
- 9.00 am: Ceremony at the French War Monument – near the Town Hall
- 9.30 am: Presentation of the Australian scholarship Sadlier-Stokes followed by a concert – “The Somme Battlefield Pipe Band” and the Brass Band of Amiens – Market Hall
- 9.00am-6.00pm : Flights over the WW1 battlefields of the Somme ** – Amiens-Glisy Airfield. Reservation at the “Aéro-club Picardie Amiens Métropole”. (Tel.: +33 (0)3 22 38 10 70).

Bullecourt :

- 2.00 pm: Anzac Day ceremony at the French War Monument – in the village

- 3:00 pm: Anzac Day Wreath Laying Service at the Australian “Digger” Memorial – outside the village

The Franco-Australian Museum will be open from Monday, April 19th to Saturday 24th, 9.30 am to 5.30 pm and exceptionally open Sunday, April 25th, 7.00 am to 6.00 pm nonstop

** Circuit N°1 (according to weather conditions):
Price: from 45 €/person with 3 people per plane
Time of flight: 45 minutes
Courtesy-bus from the Corbie Tourist Office annexe (in front of the Villers-Bretonneux Town Hall) to the Amiens-Glisy airfield. Last flight at 5pm.
Itinerary : Depart from the Amiens-Glisy airfield – Flight over the Castle of Querrieu
(British headquarters) – Crash Site of the Red Baron near the brickworks (road Corbie-Bray/Somme) – the basilica of Albert and its Golden Virgin – the blast-hole of La Boisselle– the site of Pozières – Mouquet Farm – Thiepval Memorial – Ulster Tower – Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park and its trenches – the old plane exhibition in Albert –the Red Baron’s last flight above the river Somme – Le Hamel Memorial – Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux – return to the airfield.

Circuit N°2 (according to weather conditions):
Price: from 60 €/person with 3 people per plane
Time of flight: 60 minutes
Courtesy-bus: (see above)
Itinerary : circuit N°1 + the New-Zealand Memorial and the South-African Museum in
Longueval – the castle of Suzanne – the Red Baron’ s House in Cappy – the “P’tit Train de la Haute-Somme”.