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Belgium: West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen). Five sheets of a trench map: (1) 12 SE,...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1990/1-5

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This record is about the Belgium: West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen). Five sheets of a trench map: (1) 12 SE,... dating from 1917 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MR 1/1990/1-5
Date
1917
Description

Belgium: West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen). Five sheets of a trench map: (1) 12 SE, (2) 12 NE, (3) 12 NW, (4) [12 SW], (5) 13 NW; together covering the area between Ostend (Oostende), Moerkerke, Ichtegem and Niewpoort. Each sheet shows roads, railways, woodland, churches, etc; items (1-4) also show trenches, batteries, guns, searchlights, munition dumps, cemeteries, etc; item (4) also shows areas of inundation. Reference tables; metric conversion tables; indexes to adjoining sheets. Each sheet produced by Ordnance Survey: (1-3) edition 1A (showing trenches corrected to 17 May 1917), dated June 1917; (4) dated July 1917; (5) edition 2, dated May 1917. MS title to each sheet: 'Waterways & nature of soil Map': coloured MS additions to each item reflect this title and indicate sand dunes and areas liable to flooding. [Reference notes to the additions remain among the papers in WO 153/982 part II]. All items signed by L Monthays, 9 December 1917. A printed French-English glossary to topographical and constructed features appears on the dorse of item (5). Sheet sizes between 68.5 cm x 89.5 cm and 62 cm x 84.5 cm.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Map designation
GSGS 2742
Map scale
1:20000
Physical condition
Printed
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 694
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9443167/

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