The Scarpe Valley

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Series Number Id: GSGS 3488. Sheet number: 51b and 57c. Battle of Arras, enemy organisation and expoitation map, 1917. The regular sheet 51b with a 4,000-yard deep strip added from sheet 57c (the sheet to the south). "Ordnance Survey, March, 1917." Detail and grid grey; contours brown; water blue. Overprinted with enemy organisation, presumably intended primarily for air, cavalry and tank use, showing railways, headquarters, main defence lines, possible inundations, cuttings, earthworks, embankments and bridges. Enemy organisation green. Principal German trench lines, but not all trenches, in red., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC15; envelope_number: 409.

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Title: The Scarpe Valley
Creator
Subject: World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--France
Description: Series Number Id: GSGS 3488. Sheet number: 51b and 57c. Battle of Arras, enemy organisation and expoitation map, 1917. The regular sheet 51b with a 4,000-yard deep strip added from sheet 57c (the sheet to the south). "Ordnance Survey, March, 1917." Detail and grid grey; contours brown; water blue. Overprinted with enemy organisation, presumably intended primarily for air, cavalry and tank use, showing railways, headquarters, main defence lines, possible inundations, cuttings, earthworks, embankments and bridges. Enemy organisation green. Principal German trench lines, but not all trenches, in red., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC15; envelope_number: 409.
Publisher
Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
Date: 1917-03-17
Type
Format: 1:40,000, map
Identifier: macrepo:73726, local: PC0738
Source
Language: eng
Relation
Coverage: France, Europe--France--Nord-Pas-de-Calais--Arras, Douai, Croisilles, Bourlon, Scarpe River
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