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Trench Mapper is a web-based portal created by The Western Front Association and provides access and download capabilities for trench maps, images, and sketches from WWI.
10,500+ trench names derived from the book, "Rat's Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front 1914-1918," courtesy of the author, Dr. Peter Chasseaud. Visual Search using Map Index: click in any of the grid squares on the index to view our collection of maps & photos for that area.
The Western Front Association Mapping Portal provides access to historical maps and aerial photographs of the Great War, including trench maps and topographical maps.
British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918 Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. View a graphic index of trench maps
Trench map, part of Sheets 62c & 62d. Scale 1:40 000. We have over 1.7 million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time. Our records are never finished. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it. Sometimes we change how an object is interpreted.
Trench maps were crucial in the role that artillery played in the conflict. The circled numbers were used in conjunction with a map grid and by the lines along the edge of the square, called ‘tick lines’, to break the square up into ten imaginary areas.
Our website 'British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918' features 307 trench maps of the Western Front. You can view them as a clickable map, as georeferenced overlays (where the maps are overlaid on modern maps) and as an ordered list.
