Mat Mclachlan Battlefield Tours

Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours is part of the touring division of McLachlan Travel Group , a family company that has been prominent in the Australian travel industry for more than 40 years. The McLachlan family first began organising holidays for Australian travellers in 1979, when Mats parents, Gil and Leonie, opened a small travel agency in West... Wyalong, a town of 3500 people in the NSW wheatbelt. Since then the company has grown, but is still very much a family enterprise. Today McLachlan Travel Group still owns retail travel agencies, Gil and Leonie run the business, and Mats sister Lisa is also an important part of the team managing the Groups exclusive retail division Ovation Travel . As part of McLachlan Travel Group, Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours shares the core values that were established by Gil and Leonie when they opened their first travel agency all those years ago: to provide knowledge and value to Australian travellers, and the best holiday experience possible. We look forward to welcoming you to one of Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours exciting programmes soon. Mat McLachlan is a leading battlefield historian, author and television presenter and has spent more than two decades following in the footsteps of Australian troops on battlefields around the world. A journalist by profession, Mat was a writer and magazine editor for 15 years before pursuing his passion for history as a full-time career. He is considered a leading authority on the battlefields of the Western Front, Gallipoli, the Pacific battlefields of World War Two, the Vietnam War and the Normandy landing beaches. His 2007 book, Walking with the Anzacs , is considered the definitive guide to Australian battlefields on the Western Front. It has been reprinted seven times. Mats second book, Gallipoli: The Battlefield Guide , was released in April 2010 and is the most comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of Gallipoli yet published. In 2007 Mat launched Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours, which has grown to become the ...Read More