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About the maps:
This selection of 175 large-scale (1:10,000 or approximately
6-inches to 1 mile) trench maps has been made from the collection of the
Imperial War Museum, enabling us to provide almost complete coverage of
the British section of the Western Front in the 1914-18 war, from the
North Sea at Nieuport in Belgium southwards to St. Quentin. They form
a most useful database for historians, GCSE and A-level students, battlefield
tours, family history researchers, etc., and everyone interested in the
First World War.
All the battles of the trench warfare period are represented here, the
maps showing the trench systems developing over the months and years,
and the progress of battles – Loos, the Somme, Arras, Vimy Ridge,
Messines, Third Ypres, etc. Different editions of the same sheet enable
the operations to be followed, the British trenches in blue and the German
trenches in red (until mid-1918 when the trench colours were reversed
to follow French practice. For security reasons, although the trench maps
show all the German trenches and tactical features, they mostly only show
the British front line, until 1917-18 when this policy was gradually relaxed;
in 1917 British trenches were shown for about 250 metres behind the front
line, while in 1918 all British trenches were shown.
All collections of trench maps are necessarily incomplete,
but nevertheless that of the Imperial War Museum provides a remarkable
insight into the landscape of the Western Front – which Wilfred Owen
called ‘the topography of Golgotha’ – with its unimaginable
thousands of miles of trenches seaming the countryside in continuous,
systematic, labyrinthine Allied and German defence systems on either side
of a ‘no man’s land’ varying in width from over a kilometer
to only a few metres in the most hotly contested localities. The intricacies
of the trench systems are shown, plotted from air photos, right down to
individual machine guns, trench mortars, command posts, field battery
positions, etc. Further back, the enemy’s medium and heavy battery
positions are shown together with roads, tracks and light railways and
supply and ammunition dumps, and rear defence systems.
The regular series 1:10,000 trench maps (series GSGS 3062) were produced
for most front line areas from mid-1915 until the last, mobile, operations
of 1918 which were conducted on smaller scale maps. Before trench map
production was systematised in this series, under the control of the Royal
Engineers, more ephemeral sketch maps or trench diagrams had been produced
by the Intelligence staff of each army. It was soon realised that map
production had to be in the hands of the experts, and in the summer of
1915 Topographical Sections RE were formed for each army. In early 1916
these were renamed Field Survey Companies (by July 1916 there were five
of these – one for each army), and expanded to take in flash-spotting
and sound-ranging for the artillery. In mid-1918 they were renamed Field
Survey Battalions. They had the task of compiling the background detail
from all available information, and revising it from air photos; they
then plotted the German trenches and other tactical features, also from
air photos. At first all printing was done at the Ordnance Survey in Southampton,
but from 1917 the Field Survey Companies/Battalions did more of the printing
themselves, augmented by an Overseas Branch of the Ordnance Survey which
was set up in France at the end of 1917.
List of Maps Included
on this CD Rom
A
27NE4-1a (04/07/18) Abeele
57dNE4&57cNW3-5a (07/02/17) Achiet
10-36NW2 (1915) Armentieres
51bNW3-2b (20/04/16) Arras
51bNW3-6a (27/12/16) Arras
51bNW3-9a (08/07/18) Arras
36SW1-7a (14/06/16) Aubers
36SW1-10b (02/07/18) Aubers
B
28SW3-2b (10/07/18) Bailleul
57bSW1-2a (21/10/17) Bantouzelle
57bSW1-3a (20/01/18) Bantouzelle
57cNW3-2a (27/11/16) Bapaume
57cNW3-4a (04/07/18) Bapaume
36c(44a)NW2-10a (24/05/18) Bauvin
28SW4&28SE3-1c (14/03/18) Bas Warneton
51cSE2-2a (07/02/17) Beaumetz
57dSE1&2-2 (07/02/16) Beaumont
57dSE1&2-2d (15/08/16) Beaumont
57dSE1&2-2e (14/10/16) Beaumont
62bNW3-3a (08/02/18) Bellicourt
62bNW3&62bSW1-1a (27/05/17) Bellicourt
27SE2-1c (30/08/18) Berthen
66cNW4-2a (05/01/18) Berthenicourt
57cSE1-3a (12/02/17) Bertincourt
57cNW4-3a (07/02/17) Beugny
57cNW4-4a (04/07/18) Beugny
36bNE2-7 (10/09/16) Beuvry
20SW4-6a (18/09/17) Bixschoote
20SW4-7b (06/03/18) Bixschoote
51cSE4-3a (15/02/17) Blaireville
10-51cSE & 51bSW-3a (31/081/6) Boiry
36NW4-6 (05/12/15) Bois Grenier
36NW4-8a (24/09/17) Bois Grenier
51bSW3-3a (04/03/17) Boisleux
51bSW3-4a (25/04/18) Boisleux
62cNW2-4a (08/01/17) Bouchavesnes
57cNE2-4a (20/09/17) Bourlon
36bSE2-7 (1916) Boyeffles
62bNW2-2a (13/01/18) Brancourt le Grand
51bSW4-2a (24/04/17) Bullecourt
51bSW4-6a (25/04/18) Bullecourt
51bNE1-4a (02/01/18) Brebieres
62cNE3-2a (14/03/17) Buire
C
51bSE3-4a (29/01/18) Cagnicourt
57bNW1-2a (06/09/17) Cambrai
57cSW4-6a (01/01/17) Combles
28SE3-8a (01/11/17) Comines
57dNE2&57cNW1-5a (07/02/17) Courcelles
D
20NW4-2a (17/01 /18) Dixmude
E
28NW1-4a (18/07/18) Elverdinghe
62cNE2-4a (16/02/18) Epehy
F
51bNW4-3a (04/03/17) Fampoux
51bNW4-4b (03/07/17) Fampoux
51bNW4-7a (08/07/18) Fampoux
51cSE & 51bSW-3b (07/10/16) Ficheux
36NW3-7 (02/17) Fleurbaix
62bSW2-2a (29/01/18) Fonsommes
57dNE1&2-4a (27/12/16) Fonquevillers
G
28NE3-6a (30/06/17) Gheluvelt
28NE3-7a (14/09/17) Gheluvelt
28NE3-8c (10/09/18) Gheluvelt
57cNW1-1a (22/11/16) Gomiecourt
57cNW1-3a (04/07/18) Gomiecourt
36aSE3-1a (22/06/18) Gonnehem
57cSE2-3a (30/09/17) Gonnelieu
62bNW1-2a (10/10/17) Gouy
62bSW1-2b (02/02/18) Gricourt
66cNW1-2a (13/01/18) Grugies
57cSW1-2a (07/10/16) Guedeucourt
57cSW1-3a (06/01/17) Guedeucourt
H
36c(44a)SW2-11a (09/05/18) Harnes
57dNE3&4-2 (23/02/16) Hebuterne
57dNE3&4-4b (17/02/17) Hebuterne
57cNE3-5a (20/09/17) Hermies
27NE1-1a (02/07/18) Herzeele
62bSW4-2a (03/02/18) Homblieres
57bSW3-2b (13/01/18) Honnecourt
36NW2 & NE1-9a (23/09/17) Houplines
I
66cNW2-2a (13/01/18) Itancourt
K
28SW1-3b (06/07/18) Kemmel
28SW2&28SE1-1b (16/01/18) Kortewilde
L
36c(44a)NW1-6 (11/12/15) La Bassee
36c(44a)NW1-7a (10/06/16) La Bassee
36c(44a)NW1-10b (24/05/18) La Bassee
57dSE2 & 57cSW1-2e (16/08/16) Le Sars
57dSE2&57cSW1-2f (24/09/16) Le Sars
57dSE2 &57cSW1-3a (18/10/16) Le Sars
36aSE2-9a (22/06/18) Lestrem
62cNE1-2a (14/03/17) Lieramont
20NW2 (10 /17) Leke
36c(44a)SW1-7a (09/06/16) Lens
36c(44a)SW1-8a (10/02/17) Lens
36c(44a)SW1-11a (08/05/18) Lens
36aSE4-9a (22/06/18) Locon
57cSW3-2d (31/07/16) Longueval
57cSW3-2e (15/08/16) Longueval
57cSW3-3a (29/09/16) Longueval
20SW1-2 (27/04/18) Loo
36c(44a)NW3-6 (11/12/15) Loos
36c(44a)NW3-7a (11/06/16) Loos
36c(44a)NW3-9a (31/10/17) Loos
M
57cNE4-5a (20/09/17) Marcoing
62cNW1-3a (02/06/16) Maricourt
62dNE2-a (07/09/15) Meaulte
62dNE2-2b (15/06/16) Meaulte
28SE2-3a (27/12/17) Menin
36aNE4-1 (08/18) Merville
27SE4-1c (10/08/18) Meteren
N
51bSW1-6a (04/03/17) Neuville Vitasse
20NW1 (10 /17) Nieuport
36bNE4-7 (01/10/16) Noex les Mines
O
51bNW2-5a (11/09/17) Oppy
51bNW2-7a (08/07/18) Oppy
12NW2&4-1a (14/08/17 ) Ostende
20SW3-2a (27/04/18) Oostvleteren
57dSE4-a (07/09/15) Ovillers
57dSE4-2 (25/05/16) Ovillers
57dSE4-2b (11/06/16-Ovillers
57dSE4-3a (01/09/16-Ovillers
P
36NE3-8a (21/10/17) Perenchies
62cNW4-3a (20/11/16) Peronne
28SW4-4b (01/04/17) Ploegsteert
28SW4-5b (06/03/18) Ploegsteert
36c(44a)NW4-10b (24/05/18) Pont a Vendin
28NW3-3a (24/05/18) Poperinghe
27NE2-1a (05/07/18) Proven
57dNE4-1a (17/02/17) Puisieux au Mont
Q
57cNE1-1a (08/03/17) Queant
36NE1-8a (15/10/17) Quesnoy
R
36SW2-6 (05/12/15) Radinghem
36SW2-10a (19/12/17) Radinghem
62bNW4-2a (03/02/18) Ramicourt
12SW3-2a (03/07/17) Ramscappelle
51cSE3&4-2b (08/03/16) Ransart
36SW3-7a (12/06/16) Richebourg
36SW3-11a (02/07/18) Richebourg
51bNW1-2c (07/07/16) Roclincourt
51bNW1-8a (08/07/18) Roclincourt
62cNE4-4a (21/02/18) Roisel
28SE4-3a (27/12/17) Roncq
36c(44a)SW4-11a (09/05/18) Rouvroy
57bNW3-2a (20/11/17) Rumilly
S
36SW4-11a (02/07/18) Sainghin
36NW1-6 (15/11/16) Steenwerck
57cSE3-3a (11/02/17) Sorel le Grand
28NW2-5a (01/04/17) St Julien
28NW2-6b (30/03/18) St Julien
62bSW3-2a (03/02/18) St Quentin
27SE1-1a (21/06/18) St Sylvestre
T
36NE2-6a (1915) Tourcoing
V
62cNW3-2b (08/04/16) Vaux
57cNW2-4a (04/07/18) Vaulx Vraucourt
62cSE2-1a (02/02/18) Vermand
36aNE2-1 (08/18) Vieux Berquin
57cSE4-3a (20/11/17) Villers Guislain
57cSE4-4a (16/02/18) Villers Guislain
57cSW2-3a (01/01/17) Villers au Flos
36c(44a)SW3-Provisional Edition (1915) Vimy
36c(44a)SW3-7a (13/06/16) Vimy
36c(44a)SW3-11a (12/04/18) Vimy
51bSW2-4a (09/02/17) Vis en Artois
51bSW2-7a (10/12/17) Vis en Artois
51bSW2-8a (25/04/18) Vis en Artois
W
51cNE4-1 (03/17) Wagnonlieu
27NE3-1a (02/07/18) Winnezeele
28SE1-7b (07/08/18) Wervicq
20SE3-3a (17/09/17) Westroosebeke
28SW2-5a (01/04/17) Wytschaete
28SW2-7c (10/03/18) Wytschaete
28SW2-7e (17/07/18) Wytschaete
Y
28NW4-3 (27/03/18) Ypres
28NW4-3a (19/05/18) Ypres
Z
28NW4&NE3-5a (01/04/17) Zillebeke
28NW4&NE3-6a (30/06/17) Zillebeke
28NE1-7a (08/09/17) Zonnebeke
28NE1-9d (09/08/18) Zonnebeke
20SW2-3a (17/12/17) Zwartegat
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