Series Number Id: GSGS 3566; Sheet number: part of sheet 28. One of four maps out of a set of five 1:5,000 sheets prepared specially for the Battle of Messines (7th June 1917). Trenches to 1st April 1917. OS May 1917. [Enlarged from 1:10,000 trench maps]. German trenches red, with names blue. British front & support trenches in blue., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC14; envelope_number: 382
Sheet number: 51C W29. "German trenches red". "1st Printing Coy. RE. 3rd Army 750." Monchy-au-Bois Region, north part of village, and area to north and north-west. Detail and grid grey, German trenches and Intelligence (machine guns, supposed mineshaft, etc.) red; British trenches with names blue. Small sheet presumably with latest Intelligence for mounting on artillery boards. Needle-holes in corners for registration on litho stone; printed in the field., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 515
In upper, left corner of map: C1. "Trenches corrected to 23-12-17". "Field Survey Coy., (7943) 16-12-17." Sheet lines at angle to grid north. Detail, grid and contours grey; German trenches, pill boxes etc. red; approximate British front line pecked red. Pill boxes behind British front line in Broodseinde area are numbered. Situation at the end of Passchendaele battle., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 531, Manuscript on reverse: Brigade Signal Officer - Pickering.
Sheet number: [62c NW4]. Trench / intelligence / raid map. "4th Field Survey Coy., R.E. (1178)." Area taken over by British Fourth Army from the French at the end of the Somme battle; this sector just south of the Somme river was taken over on 13 February 1917. Detail, contours & grid black; British & German trenches red. The German defense scheme shown in detail; reference shows German trenches with names, tracks, MGs, TMs, listening posts, dug-outs, headquarters. Also shown are a strong point, a defended bank, bridges over the Somme Canal and tracks across the Somme marshes. British trenches marked with section & sub-section designations along front line., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 521
Sheet 36cNW3 (part of). "Secret. Trenches corrected to 12-5-17, and all available information from aeroplane photographs added." In lower, left margin: T94. In lower, right margin: I Corps Topo. Section [with "1st Corps" pencilled below]. Detail and grid grey; German trenches & names red; British trenches & German MGs, TMs, dumps & dugouts blue. Printed in field on Ellam duplicator [probably prepared for a raid]. Very slight foxing. Trench map on recto: [Loos Region] : First Army Front 3, 1917.
Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 512
Trenches to 26th August 1917. Penciled in lower margin: "Quarries" (Hulluch). "T.164, 26/8/17. All previous editions of this map to be destroyed. I Corps Topo Section." On lower, left corner: 1st Field Survey Co., R.E. 2491. Intelligence from air photos, observation & patrols, prisoners & captured documents to 26-8-17 in green, brown & blue. Detail, grid & contours grey; German trenches & names red; British front line grey; roads in yellow. Used by Major J.C. Thomson MC (OC 20th Siege Battery, 8-inch hows). Includes collector's stamp. Trench map on verso: [Auchy-les-la-Bassée] : First Army Front 1, GSGS 3360, 1917.
Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC21; envelope_number: 650.
Sheet number: [Part of sheet 28]. Edition number: 2. In upper margin: R.1. [Trenches to 21-8-17]. "[5th] Field Survey Coy., R.E. (1,519)". Sheetlines at angle to grid north. Detail, grid and contours grey; German trenches and names, batteries and blockhouses red; "approximate British Front Line 21-8-17" pecked red. Map on verso: Plan of camp H.Q. Corps, [1917?] - PC0579B (macrepo 71417)., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC21; envelope_number: 649
Trenches to May 1917. "41st Divn 15-5-17". "Printed by No. 2. Advanced Section. A.P.&S.S. 28/5". Detail, grid and British and German trenches with names black; German wire red., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 479, On reverse: message form.
Sheet number: [28 NW4].
[Trenches to approximately 20th September 1915]. Detail, grid & contours black; German trenches red. Prepared for the diversionary attack on Hooge to coincide with the opening of the Battle of Loos (25 Sept 1915)., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC15; envelope number: 422, MS: faint pencil British trenches south of Railway Wood - 17 & 18.
Sheet number: [28 NE1]. Third Battle of Ypres; Map E12, 8th Division 11-8-17. Legend to trenches, rifle pits, wire, machine guns, emplacements, dugouts, telephone exchanges, dumps, batteries, obs. posts. Message Pad form on reverse. Uncontoured intelligence and reporting map printed on field duplicator (Ellam or Zygad). Detail and grid (at angle to sheetlines) black, water (Hanbeek etc) blue, German trenches, rifle pits and wire red, other intelligence in blue as per legend. Period of crucial wet August weather during which II Corps got bogged down in this area in this initial stage of Third Ypres. 8th Division attacked here on 31 July (losing some 3000 men), gaining a line running roughly from Frezenberg to Westhoek, but in the attack of 16 August (for which this map was prepared) it hardly gained any ground (losing another 2000 men); there was stalemate until 20 September., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope number: 496
At head of sheet, "German lines from Klein Zillebeke to Forret Farm". Map no. 4, 47th London Division 9-7-17, Printed by No. 2 Advanced Section, A.P.&S.S. 18-7-17. Reference to Intelligence: machine guns, observation posts, dugouts & bldgs occupied, posts where enemy has been seen, dumps, trench railways. Shows detail, grid and German trench system; British front line not shown. Shows situation after Battle of Messines, when front was advanced in this area, and before Third Battle of Ypres. Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope number: 486.
In upper, left corner: E.1. "Trenches corrected to 22-12-17". "Field Survey Coy., R.E. (7837) 10-12-17". Detail, grid, and contours grey; German trenches and names, approximate British Front Line and old German works, trenches and pill boxes with names within the British front in red., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC17; envelope_number: 488, Manuscript on face: Artillery fighting map markings for A/123 Battery No.2 Gun I18b97.48 [250 yards E of Hooge, just N of Menin Road]: gun position, zero line through Gheluvelt with sector 30 degrees right & left of zero line, arcs, SOS lines, British Bn & Coy HQs & posts. Also tasks for A/124, B/124 & D/124, and B/123, C/123, & D/123 batteries in Gheluvelt area. OP at Tor Top [Hill 62].