Suvla Trench Maps

[Blackblue]

I am heading back to Gallipoli in September and was chasing good maps with trench positions and relevant GPS coordinates. Wondered if anyone can help please?

Rgds

Tim D

[Guest]

Any specific locations?

[Blackblue]

Sorry Martin,

I am most interested in 9th Lancashire Fusiliers. So Chocolate Hill etc. for the landing and then later Lone Tree Gully, Karakol Dagh and Leather Lane as well as the broader Kireçtepe area.

Tim

[Blackblue]

Hi Martin,

Just bringing this one up again. I have been looking at some of the work you have done on Google/Trench Maps and wondered if you had available for the aforementioned locations please?

Rgds

Tim D

[Howard]

If you look at the WFA Mapping the Front DVD of Gallipoli, there are a set of 45 Turkish maps (drawn with German cartography) of the trenches immediately after the evacuation. They do not bear the British locations but are as accurate as surveying was at the time, more accurate and detailed than most British maps. It is useful to transfer British place & trench names to the Turkish maps.

Howard

[Blackblue]

Thanks Howard,

Unfortunately as need it by next week!

Rgds

Tim

[Guest]

Thanks Howard,

Unfortunately as need it by next week!

Rgds

Tim

Tim Is this for the whole of Suvla or any particular area(s)?

For Suvla there are

1. 1:20,000 Scale maps.

2. 1:10,000 Scale Maps of sheets 105 and 106 (Scimitar Hill, Chocolate Hill, Green Hill) and 117 and 118 (Sulajik, Teke Tepe)

Showing field boundaries - very useful particularly around Scimitar Hill Chocolate Hill

Showing contours - not particularly accurate when compared to Sevki Pasha (see below)

3. Larger scate @ 1:7,000 sheest of Scimitar Hill - showing field boundaries.

4. Sevki Pasha Maps (Turkish Maps) prpared in 1916-17. Most detailed but have no grid lines. I have my own copies (not WFA) kindly bought for me by GWF comrades in Turkey. These have been scanned and loaded on my PC.

I have all of the above overlaid on Google Earth. If you have an iPad, simply do the overlays and either screen shot and save as photos and carry the iPad with you. I found this to be the easiest way. A compass is absolutely critical for getting bearings, back bearings and re-sections particularly on the heights of KTS as the peaks look rather similar and it is easy to get confused.

Each have their own merits.

Ping me a PM.

Sorry Martin,

I am most interested in 9th Lancashire Fusiliers. So Chocolate Hill etc. for the landing and then later Lone Tree Gully, Karakol Dagh and Leather Lane as well as the broader Kireçtepe area.

Tim

Apologies. I did not see this post. Got it.