Events Archive

1. 1. Le Chemin 2014 by Geoff Cowling 2. Le Chemin 2015 by Brid Fhionnagain 3. Fifty Five Years On – The Chemin de la Liberté

In August 2016, and as an official event of San Sebastian European Cultural Capital, the Bidasoa Basque Pyrenees Freedom Trails’ Association successfully organised a day trail and a night trek to commemorate one of the WWII escape lines...

Charles Schepens, who died on March 28 2006 aged 94, ran an escape route through the Pyrenees during the Second World War and later became a leader in the field of retina surgery.

The ELMS Family Day

This event commemorates those who were involved with the Comet Line and takes place in Brussels. It is an annual event held on the weekend closest to the 20th October, when a group of Comete Line Helpers were executed at the Tir National...

The annual Commemoration of F Section of SOE takes place on the 6th May. This event remembers the 104 SOE operatives who lost their lives working to liberate France. Details of this year's event are as follows:

This annual, very arduous event takes place in the high Pyrenees. Weather conditions, even in July, can be very difficult. In 2013 the event had to be curtailed due to snow, and last year the weather could best be described as miserable!...

The Annual reunion takes place during the last week of April,and is based on the town of York and the Eden Camp Museum near Malton. The main event is the reunion weekend, which is held over the last weekend in April and includes the annual...

This trail event retraces the route taken by Allied POWs who were freed from Stalag XVlllD at Maribor in Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia) to their eventual extraction point from an airfield at Otok.

Following on from the successful event organised by John Clinch in 2016, ELMS are re-launching our 'Ici Londres' event as a simple lunch in London on Saturday the 9th December 2017.

![sulmona[1]](/media/images/events/archive/italian-freedom-trail-sulmona/sulmona1-300x200.jpg)Sulmona is one of the oldest towns in Abruzzo, with many buildings from the middle ages or earlier. It is well known for being the native town of...

Since its inception, the format of the long weekend has consisted of the ‘ceremonial’ on the Friday - laying wreaths at War Memorials and the graves of Comète notables; visiting the \" Villa Voisin ", Anglet (Comète operations in SW France...

This event takes place on the 2nd September at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York. Allied Air Forces Day is attended by hundreds of servicemen and veterans from all over UK, and is one of the largest events of its kind in...

The 8th Edition of the Commemorative Frankton Walk

1. Tenth Anniversary Trail 2002 by Elizabeth Harrison 2. Comete Trail Report 2005 by Roddy Langley 3. Comete Trail Report 2006 by Phil Douglas 4. Comete Trail Report 2014 by John Clinch 5. Comete Trail Report 2015 - by John Clinch

A 10 km commemorative walk between the villages of Rumes in Belgium and Bachy in France as a tribute to the wartime guide Henriette Hanotte (Monique) who took many RAF and USAAF evaders across the franco-Belge border and onto Paris.

ELMS Summer Picnic at the National Memorial Arboretum