Kindly request help with trenchmap

[Guest the devons]

I am currently researching the 15th Brigade AIF, April - June 1918, and will visit the Villers-Bretonneux area in a few days.

Is there anyone who can help with trenchmap 62 D SW, for roughly the above period? This would be of great help in extending my research in the field.

Any help, whatsoever, will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Robert

[towisuk]

Sadly this area is too far to the west of the general area that all my trench map cd's cover, I suspect any map found would be a rare one.....certainly not produced in the quantity of the ones for the 1916-17 areas of operations.

regards

Tom

[CROONAERT]

I suspect any map found would be a rare one.....certainly not produced in the quantity of the ones for the 1916-17 areas of operations.

Rare(ish) in 1:10,000 scale (they were "local" productions), but less so in 1:20,000, though they are highly collectable (those that have survived).

I don't have a copy of a British trenchmap of the area myself, but I do have the area pretty well covered in French and German trenchmaps. If a scan from one of these would suffice, just say.

Dave.

[towisuk]

Hi dave, yes with the rapid movement of the front in 1918, producing up to date trench maps would be extremely difficult, certainly it was a totally different ball game to what it was 2 years earlier.

regards

Tom

[CROONAERT]

V-B was a slight oddity though, Tom, as the frontline in the area was relatively static for a few months, which was ample time for the survey battalions to get to work. That's why detailed trenchmaps (even in 1:10,000 scale) of the area do exist.

Dave

[barkalotloudly]

several 62`s including some local editions but most of mine are earlier

regards John