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MESSINES : Map 1917.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Summary:
- Description: [Enlarged from 1:10,000 Trench Maps]. GSGS 3568 Area: Peckham - Spanbroekmolen - Pick & Skip Woods - Lumm & Despagne Farms - In de Kruisstraat Cabt. - R.E. Farm - Mortar Farm - Fort Pinkie - Boyle's Farm - Mortar Farm - Ontario Farm - Sniper's House - Messines - Huns' Walk - Betlhéem Fm. German trenches red, with names blue. British front & support trenches in blue. Metre gauge rlys in red. MS on face: blue & green pencil boundaries and markings 1, 2, 3, 4 & HQ, for attack by British battalion (?) across Mortar and Sloping Roof Farms, and Intermediate Trench (added in red pencil with name added in pen) N of Messines. MS on reverse: Signalling Officer. Marked. Not linen-backed. Printed title etc on reverse. Two small repairs on folds.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).
- One of four maps that represent four out of the set of five 1;5,000 sheets prepared specially for the Battle of Messines (7th June 1917). From the Peter Chasseaud Collection.
- AMDigital Reference: PC0493ww1map.
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