Details

Subject(s)

• World War, 1914-1918—Battlefields—France—Pas-de-Calais—Maps [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Battlefields—France—Somme—Maps [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Campaigns—France—Pas-de-Calais—Maps [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Campaigns—France—Somme—Maps [Browse]
• Pas-de-Calais (France)—Maps [Browse]
• Somme (France)—Maps [Browse]

Publisher

• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey [Browse]

Former owner

• Shenstone, Allen Goodrich [Browse]

Donor

• Shenstone, Allen Goodrich [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Topographic maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• military maps [Browse]
• regional maps [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by form lines and pictorially.
• Panel title with index to adjoining sheets on verso.
• Shows hedges, fences, ditches, ditches with permanent water, conspicuous points, permanent railways (light gauge and double or single normal gauge), main roads, churches, wind mills, and triangulation points.
• Also shows military grid.
• In lower left margin: "G.S., G.S. 2743."
• In lower right margin: "Ordnance Survey, November 1917."
• Includes "Instructions as to the use of the squares," "Table for converting metres to feet," and text regarding grid lines.
• Also includes glossary on verso.
• Place names in French.

Geographic coverage

Covers part of the Somme and Pas-de-Calais Departments, Hauts-de-France, between Saint-Léger in the north, Noyelles-sur-Escaut in the east, Rancourt in the south, Courcelette in the west.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1: Ink inscription beneath index map on verso: "A.G. Shenstone Capt. R.E. 1916."

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1: Gift; Professor A.G. Shenstone ; January 13, 1972.

Standard map series designation

• G.S.G.S. 2743

OCLC

1478466633

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