Barry Hayter Posted 19 March , 2006 Share Posted 19 March , 2006 Ahoy there, Have been reading through the war diaries for the above Coy and compiled a list of locations. What I'd like to do now is use a contemporary map and detail their movements. However I've tried Googling a lot of the locations but don't always find anything relating to WW1. Any good maps out there which you can recommend and any more detailed sources of what one would have found there during these years? I understand Flexicourt was a training school?). Finally (as if I hadn't asked enough already), there is one name I simply cannot read (P in the list) .... something like Punt Rung. Port Rising. Pout Rimg ....!!! Any ideas? They 'detrained' here so assume that refers to a railroad? Thanks all. Location Date Aldershot 21.04.16 Southampton 05.05.16 Le Havre 06.05.16 Gare- Marchandise 07.05.16 Farm De-la-Belle-Croise 09.05.16 Dou Dou Farm 16.05.16 Meteren 23.08.16 P 24.08.16 Flexicourt 29.08.16 Eaucourt 01.09.16 Ailly 03.09.16 Flexicourt 05.09.16 Fricourt 07.09.16 Montaubon 17.09.16 Ouderdom 23.10.16 Transferred to RWF 02.02.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Beckett Posted 20 March , 2006 Share Posted 20 March , 2006 Sounds like Pont Remy which is south east of Abbeville in France Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Hayter Posted 20 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 March , 2006 Spot on Peter, thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Beckett Posted 20 March , 2006 Share Posted 20 March , 2006 Pont Remy is directly below St Riquier on the Abbeville to Amiens line on this railway map of France Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Hayter Posted 22 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Thanks Peter, have made a note of that ... a good starting point. Still no sign of some of the other locations but the hunt continues, I suppose some of the names given i.e. Dou Dou Farm were interpretations of a French name and may not be in line with other diaries \ official reports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Beckett Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Some possibilities for Dou Dou Farm on trench maps are: On 1:10,000 sheet DOUBLE DEUX FARM 12SW1 LA DOUVE FARM 28SW4 DOUA ROAD 36cSW2 DOUAI 51bNW1 DOUAI ROAD 36cSW4 You can search for yourself, courtesy of the Western Front Association on their web page: http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the...tmplacefind.php Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 24 March , 2006 Share Posted 24 March , 2006 Have you tried our maps from Canada? Nicholson Maps Canada WW1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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