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28 mar 2022 · The new website is free to use and displays British, French and German trench maps, aerial photographs, maps from the official history, hand drawn maps and others all georeferenced against modern mapping.
1:20,000 trench map showing British (blue) and German (red) trenches just east of Arras, revised to 4 March 1917. Trench maps are a primary source for studying the major battlefields of the Great War.
British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918. Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. Browse the maps: As individual sheets using a zoomable map. As zoomable overlays of each map on a modern satellite or map layer. By map series and sheet lists. See also:
View map: War Office (G.S.G.S), 57C.NE - (1:20,000) - Edition 7A - British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918. Sheet: 57C.NE. Scale: 1:20000 Edition: 7A Published: October 1917. Trenches corrected to 20 September 1917. Size: map 50 x 80 cm (ca. 20 x 31 inches) on sheet ca. 68 x 90 cm (ca. 27 x 35 inches) Search: Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
The collection has 350 individual maps of the front done by the French army mapmaking agency. Above are a map of the Argonne Forest showing the trenches, done on July 23, 1918, and a detail of those trenches from the large map.
This is a duplicate of Saloniki map, hence not re-scanned. Shows British front line positions I 12 - I 16 and advanced post AI 16 near the village of Sejdelli. This is part of the BSF's Vardar line.
How to read a British trench map. Map references crop up all the time in unit war diaries. If you are trying to work out the precise location of a unit during the war then you need to be able to understand how the reference system worked.
