On this day in 1914, Britain declares war on Germany.
What began as a European crisis quickly became a global catastrophe. Over the next four years, more than 16 million people would be killed, including almost a million from Britain and her empire. The war would reshape borders and see nations disappear but it would also sow the seeds for another global conflict.
More than a century on, those men and women who were shaken from their ordinary lives and asked to do the unimaginable, deserve to be remembered. That’s where Sophie’s Great War Tours comes in. Their story, our history is shared on the battlefields where it happened. Our tours take you to the fields of Flanders, the trenches of the Somme, and the towns forever marked by war. We walk the ground where young men once stood. We tell their stories, not just of how they died, but how they lived, hoped, wrote home, laughed with comrades, and faced unimaginable fear.
When you walk with us, you honour those who gave everything. You connect the past with the present. And you carry their memory into the future.
Contact us today to discuss your very own battlefield tour.
