Item
Cover originally containing MPH 1/206/2-6.
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/206/1
Date: [19th century]
Cover originally containing MPH 1/206/2-6.
Item
15 sheets of 'Balkan Overprint Maps', based on sheets of GSGS 4072 '1:500,000 Europe...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/897/1-15
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This record is about the 15 sheets of 'Balkan Overprint Maps', based on sheets of GSGS 4072 '1:500,000 Europe... dating from 1940-1944 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)
- MPH 1/897/1-15
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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15 sheets of 'Balkan Overprint Maps', based on sheets of GSGS 4072 '1:500,000 Europe (Air)', and 'Middle East 1:500,000' (not published as GSGS series), and together showing the entire Balkan Peninsula. Each sheet is overprinted in colour with detailed information about terrain, roads, railways, air stations, obstacles to military movements etc. The sheets are: (1) MDR 553/10378 'Varna' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/26); (2) MDR 553/10052 'Tirana' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 40/18); (3) MDR 553/10310 'Thessaloniki (Salonika)' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 40/22); (4) tracing of (3), showing amendment, February 1944; (5) MDR 553/10213 'Sofia' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/22); (6) MDR 553/10035 'Shkodra (Scutari)' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/18); (7) MDR 553/10093 'Larisa' (Middle East sheet North J 34 NE); (8) MDR 553/10071 'Kerkira' (Middle East sheet North J 34 NW); (9) MDR 553/10368 'Istanbul' (GSGS 4072 sheet 40/26); (10) MDR 553/10179 'Fiume' ([GSGS 4072] sheet NE 44/14); (11) MDR 553/10008 'Chieti' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/14); (12) MDR 553/10463 'Beograd (Belgrade)' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 44/18); (13) MDR 553/10008 'Chieti' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/14); (14) MDR 553/10131 'Athínai (Athens)' (Middle East sheet North J 34 SE); (15) MDR 553/10035 'Shkodra (Scutari)' (GSGS 4072 sheet NE 42/18).
Each sheet has reference tables; key to adjoining sheets. The base GSGS 4072 sheets were compiled and drawn at the War Office or the Ordnance Survey, some in 1940, some in 1942; and heliographed at the Ordnance Survey, some in 1940, some in 1942. Some sheets are of the first edition; others bear additions and corrections, some to January 1942, some to July 1942. Some sheets have air information supplied by HQ RAF Middle East, March 1943. Each sheet was reproduced by 17 Map Reproduction Section RE, 19 Field Survey Company RE or 512 Field Survey Company RE, at a date between August 1943 and January 1944. Each overprint was compiled and drawn by Military Intelligence (Topographic), General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, at a date between November 1943 and January 1944; and reproduced by 17 Map Reproduction Section RE, 19 Field Survey Company RE or 512 Field Survey Company RE, at a date between November 1943 and January 1944, for Military Intelligence (Topographic) General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, from tracings supplied by MI (T). Dimensions: printed sheets between 64 cm x 90 cm and 63 cm x 84 cm; tracing 33.5 cm x 21 cm.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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OR 4028 (index map to GSGS 4369, GSGS 4072 and GSGS 4072A) and another map apparently based on it and marked to show the area covered by these 'Balkan Overprints', are in WO 208/84
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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)
- MDR 553
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:500000
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Heliographed, coloured; (4) is MS
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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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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 357.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9093390/
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