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2 items (originally illustrating notes of a Franco-British conference on plans for...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/48
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This record is about the 2 items (originally illustrating notes of a Franco-British conference on plans for... dating from 1930-[1939] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/48
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1930-[1939]
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally illustrating notes of a Franco-British conference on plans for military intervention in the event of a German invasion of Belgium, held at Le Cauroy, 13 October 1939) extracted from WO 197/17. Western Europe. (1) Map, cut from a larger sheet, covering the area between Ostend (Oostende), in Belgium, Cologne (Köln) in Germany, Luxembourg, and Noyon, in France; sepia reproduction. (2) 'Carte de France et des Pays limitrophes au 500.000e': sheet NM 31-NE ('Lille - Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels, Belgium]') only of a map on multiple sheets, covering the area between Cambrai, France, in the south-west, and Arnhem, Netherlands, in the north-east. Heliographed, coloured. Reference tables to adjoining sheets and to the corresponding sheets of the International Map of the Worlds. Scale: 1:500,000. Compiled, heliographed and published by the Service Géographique de l'Armée, 1930. Different MS additions, coloured, to each item, marking details of the intervention plans; the additions to item 2 also highlighting waterways. Dimensions: (1) 34 cm x 44 cm; (2) 47 cm x 45 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 525
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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