Museum: 'Battle of the Buldge' in La Roche

[HistoryMan]

Nice thread

[colt45]

nice Photos of the past, looks great!

[Paul D]

Just an update , i visit this museum a number of times a year whilst Guiding Tours , it is a superb privately owned museum and is the only one in the Ardennes that shows the British involvement during the Battle of the Bulge fighting in cooperation with American VII Corps. The new Bastogne War Museum which was built with 19,000,000 Euros of pubic money is causing many of the smaller and in some cases better Museums to become very squeezed on visitor numbers so please wherever you are from move off from Bastogne and BOB and pay a visit to La Roche , we need to keep all the Bulge museums going !

[HistoryMan]

Just an update , i visit this museum a number of times a year whilst Guiding Tours , it is a superb privately owned museum and is the only one in the Ardennes that shows the British involvement during the Battle of the Bulge fighting in cooperation with American VII Corps. The new Bastogne War Museum which was built with 19,000,000 Euros of pubic money is causing many of the smaller and in some cases better Museums to become very squeezed on visitor numbers so please wherever you are from move off from Bastogne and BOB and pay a visit to La Roche , we need to keep all the Bulge museums going !

I was in Bastogne last Christamas, which museum is this?? 19 million !!!! woww

Any reference to the 53rd Welsh in the museum ? My grandfather was 53rd Welsh

cheers

[Paul D]

Bastogne War Museum is th eone next to the Mardasson Memorial . La Roche has information / displays / dioramas on all the British Divs who fought in the Ardennes including 53rd Welsh.

Did you go to Hotton when you were there ?

[BlackCat1982]

Aywaille also has a nice little museum, worth a visit too if you are in the area.

[HistoryMan]

Bastogne War Museum is th eone next to the Mardasson Memorial . La Roche has information / displays / dioramas on all the British Divs who fought in the Ardennes including 53rd Welsh.

Did you go to Hotton when you were there ?

Ah I see, didnt go into that museum near Mardasson Memorial, just went to the memorial itself

Didn't go to Hotton unfortunately, went everywhere else ! wasn't aware of the 53rd Welsh memorial until afterwards !!! will have to revisit, i want to go back in 2019

cheers

[Paul D]

What unit was your Grandfather with ?

[HistoryMan]

What unit was your Grandfather with ?

71st Anti-Tank Regiment RWF

[greatwhite]

What is the best way to get there guys, from the UK