Battlefield tours can be made to the Great War battlefields in Belgium and Northern France. The heaviest fighting by British and Empire troops occurred on the more northern sectors of the Western Front, particularly on the Somme, and in the battles in Flanders (Ypres, or Passchendaele).

Some tours are of interest to particular groups such as Irish and Australian nationals. During the Great War all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and Protestant volunteers in the 36th Ulster Division fought alongside mainly Catholic and Nationalist volunteers in the 16th Irish Division.

Over The Top Tours offer a half-day Irish Tour at the site of the Battle of Messines Ridge. It was here that the 16th and 36th Divisions attacked together on 7th June 1917.

Although all Over The Top tours of Ypres include a visit to the Irish Island Peace Park, the half-day Irish Tour includes a more detailed battlefield tour of places where volunteer soldiers from both north and south of Ireland fought, on the day that they successfully took the strategic village of Wijtschate.

The tour includes a visit to the divisions' assembly areas, and objectives, and to the cemeteries where those who fell are buried. Willie Redmond MP, the brother of nationalist leader John Redmond, was one of the fatalities. He was an officer in 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, and was hit in the wrist and the leg during the first attack. He died that same day in the Catholic Hospice in Locre.

Redmond's death made more impact than any other British Empire fatality in the Great War, and was reported in almost every British and Irish newspaper. Amongst those who paid tribute to him was Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson. The Irish Tour of the Messines battlefield includes a visit to Willie Redmond's grave, and to the hospice at Locre, Belgium (now Loker) where he passed away.