Somme July 1st 1916 Bn map

[love4history]

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

For medal display purposes I am looking for a map/image showing the July 1st frontline with the position of the respective Bn involved in the first wave.

One seems to find a lot of them with the divisions and even brigades indicated but can't seem to trace one that has the Bn's? Might be too big a scale for a map of the complete front with all Bn (?) so maps/drawings that show part of the front with the Bn's are welcomed as well.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Cheers from Flanders

Roel

[CROONAERT]

The (British) Official History maps volumes contains maps of the British frontline for 1st July 1916 illustrating the positions and movements of each individual battalion. Unfortunately, to produce a single map showing this would have made it absolutely huge, so it was broken down into 6 separate sector-specific maps. Below is an extract from one of them to show what I mean...

Dave

[love4history]

Hello Dave

Thanks for the intel. Looks exactly like what I'm after!

Any others?

Roel

[CROONAERT]

Any others?

Yes. I've got the lot, but it's difficult to crop and resize each sufficiently to post on here.

Anyway, here's one attempt at the full British front ... just about readable, I think?

Dave

[love4history]

Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to help Dave. It's appreciated!

Will try to make a clean print of these and see how they look display-wise.