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Lens : [Lens Battlefield 1917]

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Sheet number: [36c SW1]. Edition number: 5. "Trenches corrected to 19-9-17". Overprint in blue along lower margin: Secret -- T.185, Issued 27/9/17, [1st] Corps Topo Section. "Field Survey Co. R.E. 5077." Stamped in red: No 7 Canadian Siege Battery, Oct 15 1917. Intelligence to 25-9-17 in blue; roads and tracks yellow; detail, grid, British trenches and names grey; German trenches, names & light railways red; tactical intelligence overprint blue. Litho printed in field, overprint on Ellam duplicator. Used by Major J.C. Thomson MC (OC 20th Siege Battery, 8-inch hows). Attached item: typed, duplicated note on 8/15 light machine guns. "Extract of orders issued by Sixth German Army which is opposite us.", Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 498

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Title
Lens : [Lens Battlefield 1917]
Creator
Subject
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--France
Description
Sheet number: [36c SW1]. Edition number: 5. "Trenches corrected to 19-9-17". Overprint in blue along lower margin: Secret -- T.185, Issued 27/9/17, [1st] Corps Topo Section. "Field Survey Co. R.E. 5077." Stamped in red: No 7 Canadian Siege Battery, Oct 15 1917. Intelligence to 25-9-17 in blue; roads and tracks yellow; detail, grid, British trenches and names grey; German trenches, names & light railways red; tactical intelligence overprint blue. Litho printed in field, overprint on Ellam duplicator. Used by Major J.C. Thomson MC (OC 20th Siege Battery, 8-inch hows). Attached item: typed, duplicated note on 8/15 light machine guns. "Extract of orders issued by Sixth German Army which is opposite us.", Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 498
Publisher
Contributor
[Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section]
Date
1917-09-27
Type
Format
1:10,000, map
Identifier
macrepo:71251, local: PC0551
Source
Language
eng
Relation
Coverage
France, Europe--France--Nord-Pas-de-Calais--Lens, Canal de Lens, Sallaumines
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