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Series
War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans
Catalogue reference: WO 153
What's it about?
WO 153
This series is the principal accumulation of thematic maps relating to operations. The maps and plans in this series relate to the theatres of war and the Armies of Occupation. The series includes a large number of trench maps with manuscript...
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WO 153
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
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1880-1929
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series is the principal accumulation of thematic maps relating to operations. The maps and plans in this series relate to the theatres of war and the Armies of Occupation. The series includes a large number of trench maps with manuscript annotations. There are also some charts, graphs and pamphlets.
There are photographs, sketches and accompanying maps which relate to the Western Front in WO 153/1268-1275 and the Salonika campaign in WO 153/1344-1346.
Many of the maps were extracted from the war diaries in WO 95.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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War Office, 1855-1964
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1354 flat sheet(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14360/
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