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English: Sailly: Secret, Canadian Machine Gun Corps Barrage Map "A"
Description
English: Sheet number: part of Sheet 51. Canal du Nord, Hindenburg Line and Marquion Line, 1918; trench and Canadian Machine Gun Corps barrage map. "Trenches corrected to 22-9-18." "[1st] Field Survey Battn R.E. 6941 [numbers crossed out and replaced with black overprint] 6951". Detail and grid grey; contours ochre; pale blue water. Black overprint includes title statement and note, and shows northern and southern boundaries of Canadian Corps. "Approximate British Front Line" shown in dark blue. Shows all trenches in blue, including the German positions of the Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord Line and Marquion Line.
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Source McMaster University, Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC27; envelope_number: 785
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Field Service Battalion, Royal Engineers
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 Geotemporal data
Map location Sailly, Sauchy-Cauchy, Buissy, Bourlon, Cambrai
Map type trench map
Scale 1:20,000
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Bounding box
N: 50.2505363°N
W: 2.9980197°E E: 3.2495055°E
S: 50.1407868°N
Georeferencing View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps Warper
 Bibliographic data
Map sheet 51
Language English
Publisher
Royal Engineers
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q20711897

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