Skeleton map of Franco-German & Belgian Frontier

Description

Series Number Id: [GSGS 2551a]. Strategical map showing Front Line before 1st July 1916. "1st Printing Coy. R.E. G.H.Q. (2255)" in red overprint. Ordnance [Survey 1916]". Cropped sheet for field overprinting (left and right margins missing), therefore GSGS series statement lacking. Grey and blue outline map, showing rivers, international boundaries, and double and single railways. Map covers whole zone of Western Front (SE England, Holland, NW France and Belgian Coast, Switzerland and W Germany). Red overprint shows Front Line before Battle of the Somme, 1916. Red plate/stone registered with needles.
Large manuscript signature in top margin: Maxwell [name illegible] --[perhaps Aymer Maxwell [?], commissioned into Royal Artillery 1911; commanded 174th Brigade, 58th Division during War. Alternatively Maxwell Hyslop]., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC19; envelope_number: 602.

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Title: Skeleton map of Franco-German & Belgian Frontier
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Subject: World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Belgium--France
Description: Series Number Id: [GSGS 2551a]. Strategical map showing Front Line before 1st July 1916. "1st Printing Coy. R.E. G.H.Q. (2255)" in red overprint. Ordnance [Survey 1916]". Cropped sheet for field overprinting (left and right margins missing), therefore GSGS series statement lacking. Grey and blue outline map, showing rivers, international boundaries, and double and single railways. Map covers whole zone of Western Front (SE England, Holland, NW France and Belgian Coast, Switzerland and W Germany). Red overprint shows Front Line before Battle of the Somme, 1916. Red plate/stone registered with needles. Large manuscript signature in top margin: Maxwell [name illegible] --[perhaps Aymer Maxwell [?], commissioned into Royal Artillery 1911; commanded 174th Brigade, 58th Division during War. Alternatively Maxwell Hyslop]., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC19; envelope_number: 602.
Publisher
Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
Date: 1916
Type
Format: 1:1,000,000, map
Identifier: macrepo:74479, local: PC0850
Source
Language: eng
Relation
Coverage: Belgium, France, Europe--Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland
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