Welcome to Old Bill Bus Tours
We are specialists in providing tours of World War 1 Battlefields. We have numerous 'off the shelf' tours which are run throughout the year, and these can be found on the 'Tours' page. Alternatively we can arrange custom tours based on your requirements, in which case contact us.
The Great War 1914-1918 was an extraordinary period in this countries history. From the early days of 1914, the British Expeditionary Force, referred to as that ‘ Contemptible Little Army’, by Kaiser WILHEM 11, was rushed to the front in a fleet of hastily commandeered London Buses. They fought the Imperial German Army to a standstill in the first battles of the Great War. The names of those battles were proudly daubed on the sides of the khaki painted vehicles, Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and the Marne and of course Ypres.
The ‘Tommies’ arrived with an optimistic viewpoint to make a ‘Cheerful sacrifice’. Four years later they had endured the ‘Unending War’, of unbelievable suffering and sacrifice, which would become a testament to the bravery of every man who fought and died in a foreign field.
Later in the War the same buses appeared on the Somme and Arras. As these machines trundled up and down the lines they acquired a soft spot in the hearts of the footsore Tommies. In the military phonetic alphabet of the day the letter ‘B’ was represented by the word ‘Bill’, therefore the 1914 London Bus Company Type ‘B’ Omnibus became forever famous as the Old Bill Bus.
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