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LILLE [Fortress Plan Directeur] : Map 1914.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Summary:
- Description: Sheet 1. GSGS 2742a [1914]. [Printed at OS]. Area: Houthem - Wervick - Warneton - Comines - Ploegsteert Wood - Deulemont - Ploegsteert - le Bizet - le Romarin - Nieppe - Armentieres - Houplines - Frelinghien - la Houlette - Quesnoy-sur-Deule - Vert Galant (N. of Lille). Detail & contours black. 1914 system of squaring red. Instructions As To The Use Of The Squares in French & English in red.. Translations in margin with accents. Scale of yards and metres in margin; 1:20,000 has comma inserted roughly on plate. A detailed, accurate pre-war French survey, photographically reproduced by British. Used before regular series 1:20,000 became available. Probably the 3rd state (1st had Instructions in English only in black, while 2nd had ditto in red). MS on face: 19th Infantry Brigade dispositions to E of Armentieres between 18th November & 26th December 1914; Welsh Fus., Middlesex, Cameronians [5th Scottish Rifles]. British line in red pencil, German line in blue. British battery position[s] marked S of Houplines. MS on reverse: 5th S[cottish] R[ifles]. Title & index diagram printed on reverse.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).
- SECOND ARMY 1:20,000 SPECIAL SHEETS. From the Peter Chasseaud Collection.
- AMDigital Reference: PC0650ww1map.
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