AUCHY - LENS : Map 1915.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: 1st Edn. GSGS 3073. Area: la Bassée Canal - Cuinchy - Cambrin - Auchy-lez-la Bassée - Haisnes - Douvrin - Fosse 8 - Vermelles - Hohenzollern Redoubt - Cité St. Elie - Quarries - Puits 13 - Le Rutoire - Hulluch - Fosse 7 - Loos & Lens Roads Redoubts - Loos - Puits 14[bis] - Bois Hugo - Hill 70 - Cité St. Auguste - Grenay - Double Crassier - Dynamitiere - Cité St. Laurent - Fosse 5 - Calonne - Fosse No. 2 de Lievin - Puits 16 - Cité St. Pierre - Lens. Detail, grid & contours black. German trenches & battery positions red. Water, 2-fig coords & grid capital letters blue. British front pecked black. Not printed on reverse. MS on face: Lone Tree. Collector's stamp. This large sheet was a redrawing of the earlier (May) Haisnes and Loos demy sheets, which were prepared when the line S of Cuinchy was taken over from the French Tenth Army. These sheets had been copied from French War plans directeurs (but with British squaring) and printed by the Printing Company RE at GHQ, not at the OS. The Auchy - Lens sheet was superseded by regular series 1:10,000 sheets in July and August 1915, but in fact many formations and units continued to use it up to the start of the Battle of Loos on 25 September.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).

From the Peter Chasseaud Collection.

AMDigital Reference: PC0533ww1map.