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Third Army monochrome panoramic photo-mechanical print depicting Gommecourt, taken...
Catalogue reference: WO 316/38
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This record is about the Third Army monochrome panoramic photo-mechanical print depicting Gommecourt, taken... dating from 1916 May 20 in the series War Office: War of 1914-1918: Western Front: Photographs. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 316/38
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916 May 20
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Description (What the record is about)
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Third Army monochrome panoramic photo-mechanical print depicting Gommecourt, taken on 20 May 1916. Consisting of 13 plates to form the panoramic.
Third Army Panorama Number: 524. Taken from Sheet 57. D. (K. 10. d. 48.50).
This panorama is damaged along the top edge making some of the annotated locations and features impossible to read. The following annotated locations and features on the panorama are readable, from left to right:
- House K. 4. b. 15.40.
- Corner of wood K. 4. d. 76.93.
- Gommecourt Cemetery.
- Corner of hedge K. 5. c. 05.87.
- Junction of hedge and road E. 29. b. 83.17.
- Road from Gommecourt to Puisieux.
- Pigeon Wood E. 30. a.
- East corner of Pigeon Wood.
- Kite Copse.
- Essarts.
- Nameless Farm.
- Rettemoy Farm.
- Road from Gommecourt to Puisieux.
- West corner of Biez Wood K. 6. b. 64.65.
- Square Wood.
- Biez Wood.
- Junction of Trenches K. 6. c. 75.10.
- Bucquoy.
- Bucquoy Road.
- Rossignol Wood.
- Crucifix at Cross-Roads K. 12. a. 03.
- Rossignol Wood.
- German Front Line K. 11. C.
- South Corner of Rossignol Wood.
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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)
- 524
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 15cm x 272cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1837135/
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WO 316
War Office: War of 1914-1918: Western Front: Photographs
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