towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 just in case this site hasn't been mentioned on the forum before, some great Aerial shots from the Salt Spring Island Archive.......... http://saltspringarchives.com/bion2008/aerial/index.htm regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Macpherson Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Wow... they are fantastic images Had a thorough look through them, they certainly obliterated the place. Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Yes I thought some of the Aerials were outstanding Wendy.The ones taken at an oblique angle of the battlefield showing crater upon crater as far as the eye can see..well, it takes the breath away.... regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 sorry but unsee the connection with Salt Spring Island, which seems to be somewhere in Canada. Can someone please enlighten? cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Trying to identify aerial photos with places and landmarks on Google Earth, if anyone can tell me how to transfer some map references given in the aerials onto trench map co-ordinates I'd be most grateful. Anyway here's one I've been able to work out, running ENE from Poelcappelle towards Westroesbeke......(Aerial from....Salt Spring Island Archive) regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Yes Martin..these photo's obviously appear to be held in their archive, maybe the aerials are from areas the Canadians were active in.... regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 thanks Tom cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Wade Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Thank you! I'd seen these before some time ago but had lost the link. Truly amazing pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broznitsky Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 these photo's obviously appear to be held in their archive, maybe the aerials are from areas the Canadians were active in.... These photos are from a French soldier's collection, wonder how he got them. They look like Passchendaele at first glance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 It would be a sportive engagement here for pals to indentify single aerials in order to create then and now's.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Great job!What is the name of the cmetery in the foreground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 What is the name of the cmetery in the foreground? Poelcapelle British Cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 You win the coconut Dave...... regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 These photos are from a French soldier's collection, wonder how he got them. They look like Passchendaele at first glance. A number of them are from the Somme; Le Transloy, Le Gouvernement, Combles, Morval, Sailly Sallisel, Le Priez Farm and Rancourt to name but a few. All to the east of Albert. These are identified purely from entries on the photo's themselves. It is beyond my knowledge to identify from the co-ordinates. I saved a few but gave the files the names of the places, thus losing the original file number. If someone else doesn't do it before me I will have another look and at least identify some of them with their file number. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Just for fun...where is this?....all is not what it seems!!! Clue..a couple of miles or so further south and you would get your feet wet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 It would be a sportive engagement here for pals to indentify single aerials in order to create then and now's.... Check a "Western front" topic... Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 A number of them are from the Somme; Le Transloy, Le Gouvernement, Combles, Morval, Sailly Sallisel, Le Priez Farm and Rancourt to name but a few. All to the east of Albert. These are identified purely from entries on the photo's themselves. It is beyond my knowledge to identify from the co-ordinates. I saved a few but gave the files the names of the places, thus losing the original file number. If someone else doesn't do it before me I will have another look and at least identify some of them with their file number. Kevin Go for it Kevin!!......although the site these come from, state that they are WW1 aerials from France, not so as we can see..I've posted a Passchendaele "then and now" on the "Western Front" topic. regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Hint!..... it's in the Somme... Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 A number of them are from the Somme; Le Transloy, Le Gouvernement, Combles, Morval, Sailly Sallisel, Le Priez Farm and Rancourt to name but a few. All to the east of Albert. These are identified purely from entries on the photo's themselves. It is beyond my knowledge to identify from the co-ordinates. I saved a few but gave the files the names of the places, thus losing the original file number. If someone else doesn't do it before me I will have another look and at least identify some of them with their file number. Kevin Although some names on the photos are of towns a lot of them refer to trench names. Here goes: 2008014001 9AE.602 002 9AE.600 003 9AE.603 004 NIEUVE STEDE 005 9AE.597 006 57.V.648 007 57.V.647 009 57.V.645 THERE IS NO NUMBER 008 010 57.V.629 011 57.V.628 012 BOYAU DE LA CHAPPELLE 013 COMBLES SOMME 014 NO INFO 015 PORTES DE FER 016 SOUTH OF RANCOURT SOMME 017 BOIS LOVAGE 018 FME LE PRIEZ SOMME 019 CARLSBAD 020 BUKOVINE 021 SAILLY SAILLISEL SOMME 022 LE TRANSLOY SOMME 023 COMBLES SOMME 024 LOSTOW 025 FREGICOURT SOMME 026 BOYAU DE LA CHAPPELLE 027 COMBLES SOMME 028 COMBLES ? (SPELT COMBES) SOMME 029 FERME LE PRIEZ SOMME 030 COMBLES - FREGICOURT SOMME 031 JOSTOW 032 RANCOURT SOMME 033 DE GINCHY SOMME 034 MORVAL SOMME 035 18.N.63 036 18.N.62 037 MORVAL SOMME 038 18.N.60 039 18.N.61 040 MORVAL SOMME 041 NEGOTIN 042 PILSEN NR. MORVAL SOMME 043 MORVAL SOMME 044 MORVAL SOMME 045 CARLSBAD 046 MORVAL SOMME 047 NO INFO 048 NO INFO 049 NO INFO 050 B.1590 051 B.1583 These are for page 1 of 4. I will do a separate posting for each page. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Its a great challenge to identify the aerials and I wish I could participate, but am right now in Southern France with no access to my files....Tom go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Here is page 2 of 4 First Number: 2008014052 B.1588 053 B.1594 054 B.582 BIXSCHOOTE 055 MEUNIKEN FERME YPRES 056 B.585 BIXSCHOOTE 057 9AE.601 058 NO INFO 059 B.1363 LANGEWARDE 060 B.827 CARREFOUR DE LONDRES YPRES 061 NO INFO 062 B.827 CARREFOUR DE LONDRES YPRES 063 NO INFO 064 NO PHOTO FOR THIS NUMBER 065 B.813 CARREFOUR DE LONDRES YPRES 066 B.12589 067 B.1596 068 B.1596 069 B.1588 070 B,583 DES LANCHERS 071 B.826 CARREFOUR DE LONDRES YPRES 072 NO INFO 073 LE TRANSLOY SOMME 074 18.N.64 075 22.N.1508 LE TRANSLOY SOMME 076 MORVAL SOMME 077 SAILLY SALLISEL SOMME 078 LE TRANSLOY SOMME 079 SAILLY SALLISEL SOMME 080 CANNOT READ INFO 081 B.1964 DE LA LOUTRE 082 NEAR WESTROESBEKE 083 B.589 MERCKEM 084 B.576 MERCKEM 085 NO INFO 086 NO INFO 087 NO INFO 088 9AE.78 089 9AE.74 090 9AE.74 091 57.V.632 092 ROAD TO WESTRESBEKE 093 NO INFO 094 NO INFO 095 NO INFO 096 NO INFO 097 NO INFO 098 NO INFO 099 NO INFO 100 NO INFO 101 B.381 VAUX 102 NO INFO Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Page 3 of 4 first number; 2008014103 LE GOUVERNEMENT SOMME 104 STE MARTIN 105 STE MARTIN 106 LESBOEUFS SOMME 107 MORVAL SOMME 108 MORVAL SOMME 109 N.1507 BUKOVINE 110 MENILEN 111 25 SEPT 1916 NOTHING ELSE 112 DE GINCHY SOMME 113 MORVAL SOMME 114 NO INFO 115 NO INFO 116 NO INFO 117 NO INFO 118 B.584 KORTEKER 119 B.577 DRIE? 120 B.580 DRAAIBANK YPRES 121 UNABLE TO READ INFO 122 NO INFO 123 NO INFO 124 NO INFO 125 B.579 LANGEWAADE 126 do. nearby 127 SAME SERIES AS 125 AND 126 128 B.359 129 B.356 CHEROT? 130 B.358 CHEROT? 131 B.363 BIXSCHOOLE 132 do 133 B.357 FME DES 2 MAISONS 134 9AE.589 135 9AE.599 136 9AE.595 137 9AE.593 138 9AE.596 139 9AE.598 140 GAMBETTA YPRES 141 MOEKOKE 142 S.BOUCONVILLE 143 B.828 HOUTHULUST YPRES 144 B.491 BOUCONVILLE 145 B.486 BOUCONVILLE 146 B.486 BOUCONVILLE 147 B.828 DRAAIBANK YPRES 148 B.2394 HOUART YPRES 149 B.2363 SACHSENBRUECKE YPRES 150 B.2159 151 B.2185 FERME ARABE YPRES 152 B.1581 Kevin last one to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Here is the final page. As I worked through the photos I realised that there is a fair amount of duplication. First Number 2008014153 B.1646 154 B.1580 155 B.1428 CARREFOUR DE LONDRES YPRES 156 B.2238 JESUITENGOED YPRES 157 B.1579 158 CANNOT READ THE INFO 159 B.1427 GOURBI YPRES 160 NO INFO 161 NO INFO 162 NO INFO 163 NO INFO 164 NO INFO 165 NO INFO 166 NO INFO 167 NO INFO 168 NO INFO 169 B.812 GAMBETTA YPRES 170 B.1007 STROOIENDORP YPRES 171 B.1002 VERBRANDESMIS YPRES 172 B.1004 LASSALE YPRES Thats the lot Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blighty valley Posted 11 October , 2010 Share Posted 11 October , 2010 this one is well out of the way to me it looks like combles just down the road is a lonely grave of three english soldiers looked after by cwgc must be one of the smallest? michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 11 October , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2010 Ok it's Combles...Well done Michael..I've had to edit the post to congratulate you..we must have posted at the same time..... The aerial from the site mentioned at the top of this topic has it with west being at the top. In order to orientate it North/South it must be turned 90deg anti-clockwise. I've marked the rough area covered by the photo on the trench map and the quarry with the red flag, this is found bottom centre of the aerial photograph. Notice that Combles is mis-spelt on what is the western edge of the print. Again..well done mate... regards Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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