Battlefield Visits (1 Viewer)

[Jack]

I have only started collecting toy soldiers in the last few months so I do not know if this thread has been posted before, but how many battlefields (or sites of battle) have we visited between us?

I have made it to:

Normandy
Most of the British Western Front over three visits
Verdun
El Alamein
Kokoda (PNG)
Malta
Waterloo
Isandlwana
Rorkes Drift
Pearl Harbour
Luxembourg (Battle of the Bulge)
Dunkirk
Dieppe

No ACW apart from the fort at Mobile.

Any additions?

 

[Guy]

Yes I can add a few,
-The whole of the Bulge front , including Bastogne , Sankt Vith , Malmedy ,Krinkelt, Stavelot, La Roche,Diekirsch, etc.....
-Arnhem,
-Berlin,
-Ypres , Passendaele ( WWI)
-Falaise, Caen , Bayeux, Ouistreham, Sainte-Mère-Eglise ,etc...
-St Omer ( V2 launching bunker)
-Oradour
-Verdun ( WWI)
-Maginot line
-Eben Emael
-Monte Casino
guy

 

[jazzeum]

That's a rather impressive list between the two of you.

My paltry contribution is

Gettysburg
Trenton
Fort Ticonderoga
Mobile
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
The following Spanish Civil War sites

Toledo
Madrid
Brunete
Segovia​

 

[Rob]

So far I've managed (with the patience of my good lady^&grin);

Somme
Mons
Ypre
Passschendaele
Verdun
Loos
Waterloo
Agincourt
Normandy
Dieppe
Dunkirk
Crete
Little big horn
Alamo (although I don't really count this one as I was very young so want to return)
Hastings
Bosworth

Rob

 

[Obee]

I've been to a few:

Ancient:
Troy
Persepolis (Persia)

Bosworth

Napoleonic:
Waterloo

Indian Mutiny :
Red Fort (Delhi)
Cawnpore India

NW Frontier:
Khyber Pass
Kabul

WW1:
Gallipoli

Somme:
inc Pozieres, Hindenberg Line, Bullecourt, Hamel, Peronne, Viller-Bretonneux, Amiens, St Quentin, Albert

Flanders:
inc Passchendale, Polygon Wood, Hill 60, Ypres, Fromelles

WW2:
Calais / Dunkirk
Ardennes
Singapore
Biggin Hill

USA:
Bradywine
Chattanooga
Richmond
Fredricksburg

Still a few left to visit

John

 

[6th Wisconsin]

Pearl Harbor
Yorktown
Guilford Courthouse
Gettysburg (5 times)
Antietam (3 times)
Wilderness
Spottsylvania
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Cold Harbor
Beaver Dam Creek
Gaines Mill
Ft Sumter
Ft Fisher
Saylor's Creek
Petersburg
Malvern Hill
Bentonville
Bull Run
Drove the route of Lee's retreat to Appomattox
Drewey's Bluff
White Oak Road
Cedar Creek
Five Forks
New Market

 

[Terp152]

Pearl Harbor
Yorktown
Gettysburg, many times
Antietam
Wilderness
Fredericksburg
Ft Sumter
Petersburg
Malvern Hill
Bull Run, many times
Appomattox
Balls Bluff
Bridge at Remagen (birdge no longer there)
Battle of Bulge
Verdun
Normandy
Monte Cassino
Ft McHenry
Chickamagua
Lookout Mtn
Andersonville Prison
Perryville
Kings Mtn
Ft Brooke (Seminole War)
Vicksburg

 

[trooper]

I've been to a few:

Ancient:
Troy
Persepolis (Persia)

Bosworth

Napoleonic:
Waterloo

Indian Mutiny :
Red Fort (Delhi)
Cawnpore India

NW Frontier:
Khyber Pass
Kabul

WW1:
Gallipoli

Somme:
inc Pozieres, Hindenberg Line, Bullecourt, Hamel, Peronne, Viller-Bretonneux, Amiens, St Quentin, Albert

Flanders:
inc Passchendale, Polygon Wood, Hill 60, Ypres, Fromelles

WW2:
Calais / Dunkirk
Ardennes
Singapore
Biggin Hill

USA:
Bradywine
Chattanooga
Richmond
Fredricksburg

Still a few left to visit

John

I'm surprised that, living in OZ, you haven't included Eureka Stockade John. Trooper

 

[Obee]

I'm surprised that, living in OZ, you haven't included Eureka Stockade John. Trooper

Thats too far to drive

AND its in Victoria..... ????

John

 

[Jack]

I have only started collecting toy soldiers in the last few months so I do not know if this thread has been posted before, but how many battlefields (or sites of battle) have we visited between us?

I have made it to:

Normandy
Most of the British Western Front over three visits
Verdun
El Alamein
Kokoda (PNG)
Malta
Waterloo
Isandlwana
Rorkes Drift
Pearl Harbour
Luxembourg (Battle of the Bulge)
Dunkirk
Dieppe

No ACW apart from the fort at Mobile.

Any additions?

Funny that as an Australian I didn't think of Singapore, although I cannot be too hard on myself - neither did Churchill!

If there are any Aussies out there - or if you like Australians (and let's face it - who doesn't) - do yourself a big favour and get yourself to the school house at Villers Bretonneux. Site of the reputed best night counter attack of the entire war (an Australian talking Australia up - truly a rare occurence) they have a wonderful connection with Australia. As you look out of the window of the school museum you see the words 'Never forget Australia' painted across a building in the school quadrangle. I spent Armistice Day there a few years ago and the Mayor put on a morning tea. The villagers sang 'Advance Australia Fair, in French naturally enough (although there is a deep, dark part of me that I rarely share that prefers 'God Save the Queen'). I also recommend the bugles at the Menin Gate at 8.00pm. Very moving and rarely attended by less than a hundred people. I have been there eight times and though I only cry at funerals and Test matches, there was barely a dry eye.

There is also a Battle of the Bulge museum in Luxembourg at a place named something like Diekrich (I am proudly monolingual) which is the best military museum I have ever seen. As an experience that was only bettered by Malta in 2005 when I sat in the VIP tent (old school tie got me a seat) and to see a Spit and a Hurricane arrive. Magnificent sound of those engines!

Happy Collecting!

 

[Jack]

Thats too far to drive

AND its in Victoria..... ????

John

Could be worse...it might have been in New South Wales!

 

[wayne556517]

River Kwai is one ive been to and not mentioned yet,tho not really a battle but significant.
Darwin

 

[Jack]

River Kwai is one ive been to and not mentioned yet,tho not really a battle but significant.
Darwin

I remember a day tour there on a train - the only thing I remember clearly was someone telling me that Kwai meant river and that I had tried to get directions to the River River!

 

[Denver]

Gettysburg
Valley Forge
Brandywine
Trenton
Hill 55

 

[Combat]

Borodino was my most adventurous battlefield excursion.

 

[hsm]

good list for a group of people.! This is my list but I have been to many places that have already been listed as well...

Vimy Ridge

Quebec
Queenston Heights
Stoney Creek
Chippewa\
Fort Erie/George and NIAGARA
Fort York (my units HQ)

Quinetra
Golan
Negev
Masada
Jerusalem

lots of places on duty too! but too recent to list IMO.

Grant

 

[ROAN]

Great thread!(some of the above posts have jarred my memory-so
have copied and pasted).

Here's my list:

Valley Forge

Bull Run

Harper's Ferry

Antietam

Gettysburg

Richmond

New Ulm, MN(Sioux uprising of '62-great-great
granddad's house literally stood on the the front lines, was ransacked by Sioux braves)

Hastings

Dunkirk

Normandy

Ardennes

Verdon

Maginot Line

Tours-Poitiers

Aachen

Berlin

Wurzburg

Vienna

Budapest

Wroclaw(formally Breslau)

Krakow

Warsaw

Crete-Heraklion

Toledo

Madrid

Segovia

Valencia

Istanbul-Constantinople

Erzerum

Delhi

Cawnpore

Lucknow(my article
about the siege & relief of Lucknow here: (note: in the magazine cover painting of the relief by T. J. Barker there is some speculation that the mounted figure in white waving his hand is the famous Victorian soldier/writer/adventurer Harry Paget Flashman, VC KCB KCIE http://www.aferguson.net/military_history/default.asp?year=2001&issue=1

Nowshera-Peshawar-Jamrud

Khyber Pass

Kabul

Ghazni

Kandahar

Herat

Dogali-Massawa

Seoul

Hong Kong

River Kwai-bridge was actually over the Mae Klong near Kanchanaburi where there was a POW camp and now site of a large Allied cemetery(granted, not a battle but significant).

 

[Scott]

I love you Australians almost as much as the Brits!

Bearskin Neck/Sandy Bay (War of 1812)
Ft. McHenry, MD (War of 1812)
Lexington, MA
Concord, MA
Miriam's Corner, MA
Bunker Hill, MA
Hubberton, Vt.
Bennington Vt.
White Plains, NY
Monmouth, NJ
Princeton, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Gettysburg, PA
Antietam, MD
Harpers Ferry, WV
Bentonville, NC
New Berne, NC
The Crater/Petersburg, VA
(all those 7 days fields)
Chickamauga, GA

 

[Louis Badolato]

Pearl Harbor
Messina, Sicily
Salerno
Monte Cassino
Rome
Paris
Nice and the surrounding areas in Southern France
Athens
London (the Blitz)
Valley Forge
Trenton
Battle of Long Island (you can actually still track the course of the battle through Prospect Park, and I loved a couple of blocks from Washington's headquarters in Brooklyn Heights)
Syracuse
Quebec
San Jacinto (I lived in Beaumont Texas for a while, and used to drive past the Battlefield on my way to Houston)
The Alamo (I played Rugby in College, and would play in a sevens tournament each year in San Antonio, and would always visit the Alamo)
Berlin
Several cities in Germany we took in 45 (Munich, Frankfort Heidelberg, Baden, etc.)
Several cities in Belgium and Holland where fighting took place

 

[Jack]

I love you Australians almost as much as the Brits!

Bearskin Neck/Sandy Bay (War of 1812)
Ft. McHenry, MD (War of 1812)
Lexington, MA
Concord, MA
Miriam's Corner, MA
Bunker Hill, MA
Hubberton, Vt.
Bennington Vt.
White Plains, NY
Monmouth, NJ
Princeton, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Gettysburg, PA
Antietam, MD
Harpers Ferry, WV
Bentonville, NC
New Berne, NC
The Crater/Petersburg, VA
(all those 7 days fields)
Chickamauga, GA

Try to think of us as the best of the Brits - we're kind of Napoleon's Imperial Guards with better head wear!