Sketch and trench maps

This section of the Long, Long Trail will be helpful for anyone wishing to research the places of interest to the British Army of WW1.

Sketch and trench maps


The maps in this section are ones I have found tucked away in the unit war diaries.
Unless stated they are all Crown Copyright. The WO95 numbers given are National Archives piece references.
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France and Flanders    
Source Area Date Click thumbnail for full image
2865 La Quinque Rue (Festubert)
1/6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
Jun 1915 Map
2730 Eaucourt L'Abbaye (Somme)
1/7th London Regiment.
Oct 1916 Map
2686 Raid on Nash Alley near Lens.
1/5th South Staffordshire.
Jun 1917 Map
2686 Positions W and NW of Lens.
1/5th South Staffordshire.
Jun 1917 Map
2686 Lievin.
1/5th South Staffordshire.
Jul 1917 Map
3065 Frezenberg (Ypres).
2/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment
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Aug 1917 Map
2800 Wallemolen - Bellevue (nr Poelcapelle and Passchendaele, Ypres).
1/5th Duke of Wellington's
Aug 1917 Map
2730 Oppy and Gavrelle (Arras sector)
1/7th London Regiment
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Sep 1917 Map
2806 Wallemolen (nr Poelcapelle, Ypres).
1/4th King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf.
Oct 1917 Sketch
2954 Moeuvres
1/4th London Regiment
Nov 17 Sketch
2954 Moeuvres - Inchy en Artois
1/4th London Regiment
Nov 17 Sketch
       
Other Theatres    
5195 Butaniyeh - Nasiriyeh (Mesopotamia)
2nd Royal West Kent

Feb 1916

Map
4668 West of Jerusalem (Palestine)
2/14th London Regiment (London Scottish)

Nov 1917

Map
       
       

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