WW1 tours

Kathy here is a small tour by a local guide in Colmar you might like but not sure if he includes Verdun on a tour. Reach out to him and see.

https://www.toursbylocals.com/Tour-WWI-WWII-Colmar-Alsace

Its about 4 hours by train from Colmar to Verdun. Perhaps you should look somewhere closer to Verdun?

We are staying for 5 days in Eguisheim.My hubby wants to see the WW1 battlefields.The remaining 3 of us are neutral.Colmar is lose to Eguisheim,Thought if there were tours he could go on his own.

That tour I recommended from Colmar in the earlier post suits your hubby. It's a full day of touring.

If your husband took a train to Verdun and stayed overnight, he could do a full day WWI tour beginning the next morning with a private guide and probably catch an evening train back to Colmar. I was in Eastern France this past May and did a 2-day private WWI tour with Guillaume Moizan (Address: 4, RTE de Verdun, 55320 les Monthairons; Phone: +33 7 70 06 66 61). I stayed overnight at a very nice hotel (Les Jardins du Messe), right on the Meuse River in Verdun. I greatly recommend Guillaume and here is a review I just published in TripAdvisor: "We hired Guillaume Moizan for a two-day tour of the Verdun and Meuse-Argonne Battlefields in May 2019. In going over all of my photos, I estimated that we made a total of about 30 stops over the two days, walking through the crater-filled woods, around a destroyed village (Beaumont), in trenches, bunkers, pill boxes, forts, mine craters, and - the most amazing part - 50 meters underground in the German tunnels under Vaquois Hill. We also visited the Ossuary at Douaumont, climbed the 234 steps to the top of the American Monument at Montfaucon, and spent time at the American Cemetery at Romagne sous Montfaucon (the largest American Cemetery in Europe). In addition to visiting key sites of the battle of Verdun, Guillaume designed the tour for us based on my grandfather's service in WW1 in a regiment assigned to the V Corps. We traced the path of the V Corps from 26 September 1918 until late October 1918, Guillaume also took us to Varennes to see the Pennsylvania Monument, and to Chatel Chehery to see the Sgt. York memorial and trail and the area near Binarville where the Lost Battalion was encircled. I very enthusiastically recommend a tour with Guillaume; he is extremely knowledgeable about the Great War, knows the area well (he is from a town near Verdun), has a very nice personality, and speaks excellent English. He also was featured in some short tour clips on CSPAN III during the WW1 Centennial in November 2018 and in an episode of "Travels with Darley" on PBS (Western Front). We could not have asked for a better guide! My only suggestion is that to get the most out of a WW1 tour, read extensively before you go. An excellent book to start is John Eisenhower's "Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War 1"."

Verdun is nowhere near Colmar. ~280 Km or over 3 hours by road. Too far for a day trip.
I would not expect tours from another town, especially a distant one.

There are WW1 sites nearer to Colmar. the trenches were up in the Vosges hills, on the crest above the wine villages. Thta was the border at the time.
See here: http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-forgotten-battlefield-le-linge.html

Echoing Chris - closer sites may be of interest. His linked map includes one I've seen, Hartmannswillerkopf, which is very interesting and somber, while also being a beautiful natural setting. I believe they also have a newer historical interpretation center available.

While not necessarily WWI-related, that immediate area has a couple of points of interest. There's also the Écomusée, which is an outdoor living museum of historical buildings. If you are interested in Alsace's wines, I've been a couple times to the Cave du Vieil Armand and found them to be friendly and welcoming.

Mont St. Michel is “nowhere near” Paris, but many people make that day tour. Certainly not optimal but doable. My point is if the husband wants to see some of the more important WW1 battlefields, he could get a full day tour there if he travels to Verdun and stays the night before. It basically comes down to how badly he wants to see those sites.

Did Verdun in 1990 without a guide. Didn't really need one. I did have a guidebook.
When we visited, you could still see the outline of trenches. We were told that when trees are cut that were alive during WWI that some mustard gas is embedded in the tree, so when cut, the sawdust has dangerous mustard gas.
The Ossary is bone chilling.

Whole towns and cities in northern France and southern Belgium disappeared and didn't return after the war.
When we visited many towns and cites in Great Britain and see memorials to the wars, the list of dead from WWI always exceed all the others. Usually WWI has double or triple the deaths from WWII.