A collection of campaign and situation maps. Please be aware that some images are rather large and take a while to download. Go and make a cup of tea....

The Von Schlieffen Plan - Germany's planned attack on France, 1914

Scene of the Chief Operations near Mons and Charleroi - August 1914

1st Phase of Retreat from Mons, British Positions 23rd - 28th August 1914

2nd Phase of Retreat from Mons, British Positions 28th Aug. - 6th Sept. 1914

The British Positions before Ypres, October 29th, 30th and 31st 1914

Battle lines of Germany's attack on France, 1914

Lines of the Allied Armies in Northern France at the end of Oct. and beginning Nov. 1914.

British and French positions before Bethune at the time of the German attacks on Givenchy and Cuinchy, January 25, 1915.

Battleground of Neuve Chapelle, showing British positions March 10 - 14, 1915.

The Ypres Salient before and after the Second Battle of Ypres, April 22 - May 13, 1915.

Operations of the 1st British Army, under Sir Douglas Haig, during May and June, 1915.

Battle of Loos, the battle lines of the 1st British Army at daybreak and at nightfall on September 25, 1915.

Allied line round Loos and Hulluch after the German counter-attack of October 8, 1915.

Scene of the fighting at St. Eloi and the British Salient round Ypres in the spring of 1916.

British line in Artois in the spring of 1916 after the relief of the French army south of Loos.

The Allied Line from the Sea to Rheims, in June 1916.

Map of the Somme from Philip Gibbs "The Battles of the Somme" published 1917.

Allied Battlefield on the Somme : showing gains from July 1st to September 18th 1916.

The join of the British and French lines on the Somme at the end of July 1916

The Battle of the Somme : position of the British line at the end of July,1916.

The Battle of the Somme : positions on Thiepval Ridge, September 14 - October 31, 1916.

The Battle of the Somme: Allied lines before September 15 and the beginning of October 1916.

The Battles of the Ancre : British advances from October, 1916 to February 28, 1917.

Butte de Warlencourt : position of British line at the end of November 1916.

German retirement to the Hindenburg Line March 1917.

The Battle of Arras: lines from April 9th to May 17th, 1917.

The Battle of Messines : lines before and after the battle, June1917.

The Northern Flank of the Allied Line, July 1917.

Ypres Salient before the Battle of July 31, 1917.

Battle area East of Ypres, showing line before attack on August 16, 1917.

The Battle of Ypres, successive stages of Allied advance, July 30 - November 26 1917.

The Battle of Cambrai, November - December, 1917.

The German advance & British retreat, March 21st - April 5th 1918.

Allied Lines in Flanders before and after the German Offensive in Flanders, April, 1918.

Allied lines in Flanders - during the German offensives April 9th - April 30th, 1918.

British Second Army front south-east of Ypres in Mid-June 1918.

Line of British Fourth Army before Amiens on July 4th 1918.

Allied line north-west of Rheims May 27th 1918, and position west of Rheims June 6th, 1918.

Limit of the German advances on Paris, July 1918.

Positions of the British and French Armies, August 1918.

The Battle of Amiens, August 8th 1918.

The Battles of Amiens, Bapaume, and the Scarpe : Allied line between August 8 and September 8, 1918.

Positions of the British and French Armies in Mid-September 1918.

British Attack on the Hindenburg Line between Cambrai and St. Quentin, September, 1918.

The Belgian Coast, 1918 :Allied Line between September 28 to October 25, 1918.

The British Line east of Lens and Armentieres, October 3, 1918.

The Allied Line on October 18, 1918.

Allied line on August 8, 1918 and on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.

The Theatre of War on the Western Front : Showing the main battle lines September 1914 to November 1918 (This is a large file of 1400 * 1100 pixels, 340Kb: will take over 2mins to load on 56Kb modem)