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1 item (formerly filed with correspondence between Viscount Gort and General Georges,...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/211
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This record is about the 1 item (formerly filed with correspondence between Viscount Gort and General Georges,... dating from [1939-1940] 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MFQ 1/211
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1939-1940]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (formerly filed with correspondence between Viscount Gort and General Georges, September 1939 - May 1940) extracted from WO 197/15. ['North West Europe 1:250,000']: map consisting of parts of 4 sheets of a map on multiple sheets joined; the north-western and north-eastern are, respectively: [Sheet 1] 'Folkes]tone - Boulogne', and Sheet 2: 'Lille - Ghent'; the collage covering the area between Faversham, in Kent, Ossendrecht, in the Netherlands, and Maubert-Fontaine and Clères, both in France, showing the nature of the terrain, place names, waterways and railways. MS additions, coloured, showing the British Expeditionary Force boundary as proposed by General Georges, the buried cable network, as existing and as under construction, and existing and proposed headquarters. A typescript reference table to the additions is affixed to the face of the map. The correspondence at the parent reference concerns proposed Anglo-French operations in the event of a German attack on Belgium.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- GSGS 4042
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 81 cm x 98 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:250000
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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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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 1055
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983232/
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MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: MFQ
Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments held...
6,070 records
Within the series: MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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