Sketch Maps

Well, the written Introductions for 4 / 6 maps are basically done except for a few small details.

CrazyThumbs, the Mod Leader, is going to write up Gommecourt.

That leaves Loos, and Thiepval is probably going to be a future update map not included in our initial release. It may be included; we will have to see.


It is getting to the point where I need to draw sketch maps for these three maps.

I am going to use graph paper; I have researched the map scale used on original Trench Maps:

British and Belgian Trench Symbol Keys:


Most of the British and Belgian maps are 1:10,000 maps.

1 inch= 833.33 Feet, or
254.00 Meters

1 Centimeter= 328.1 Feet or
100 meters


A Great War Forum member gave me some great information:

Again like you say, a lot of British maps only had the British front line marked or a general 2 lines not to scale or detail (i.e., because they didn't want the map to fall possibly into enemy hands, and give their positions away). They did print very detailed maps with their own trenches marked and named, but this wasn't very often.

The 'approximate front line' was often on maps after an attack or action had taken place and not all info was in about exact positions of the trenches. Aerial photos needed processing etc.

Officers would use maps to take down information prior to an attack when they were given co-ordinates for objectives for platoons or companies.

The French used tracings called plan de situation on which to draw details and use as overlays.

Most Belgians spoke French; only the Flanders region spoke Dutch (I think):



Some of the German Trench Maps were 1:20,000 scale.



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http://z15.invisionfree.com/Iron_Europe/index.php

Lots Of WWI Links

I think this old computer will be thrown out by the end of this summer, so I better put the eight months of research I found on the net here:

Australian Imperial Force:

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/ghq1arm.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22028/22028-h/22028-h.htm

http://www.151ril.com/content/home

http://penhey.name/omiwxb262Div7(p).htm

http://members.iinet.net.au/~abermail/photointro.html

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/trench-warfare/implementation.html

http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Generals/glasgow.html

http://www.cefresearch.com/matrix/Nicholson/Transcription/Chapter10.pdf

http://percysmith.blogspot.com/2007/04/chapter-28-flanders-september-1917.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistorymilitary.htm

http://www.nla.gov.au/grants/haroldwhite/papers/rmcmullin.html

http://firstworldwar.cloudworth.com/australia-expeditionary-force.php

http://www.ambafrance-au.org/france_australie/


USA

http://library.uwsp.edu/pcl/history/ourcounty/IMAGES/00000044.pdf



I believe this man, John Buchan, was the South African Official Historian of WWI:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mr_Standfast/Chapter_12

http://www.oceanharmony.ca/Alfred%20Gordon%20Wills.html#Chapter%206

http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html



Polygon Wood:

http://books.google.com/books?id=uzAzFPUPazwC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=Personal+accounts+of+Polygon+Wood,+1917&source=web&ots=vpJ1KgDa6V&sig=lDLoNw9Xr79Ve6e5Uxt2PChmzu8&hl=en

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.scran.ac.uk/RB/images/thumb/0746/07461897.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-HTTP%25253A%25252F%25252FWWW.SCRAN.AC.UK%25252F000-000-506-930-C&h=109&w=150&sz=5&hl=en&start=70&um=1&tbnid=NRM33_0UCe_3NM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAustralian%2BWWI%2Btroops,%2Bphotos%2Bof%26start%3D60%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLF,GGLF:2006-39,GGLF:en%26sa%3DN

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ly535DBdwm4C&pg=PA252&dq=Hard+Jacka&sig=BgtG1JDDUfh5mU0Xi7JjxMOXZdU#PPA186,M1

http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/tag/battles+page+2/

http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/tag/battles+passchendaele-ypres/

http://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations/commemorative_events/major_anniversaries/western_front90/

http://www.descendantsof14thbattalion.org.au/index2.html

http://www.hardjacka.com/theaustralian.html

http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Generals/sinclair_maclagan.html

http://www.diggertours.com/pozieres.htm


Memorial Stories Testimonies (not a direct link anymore):

http://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/frequentlyaskedquestions/Ernie_Mayo

http://www.dva.gov.au/media/aboutus/annual/wargrave.htm

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070311b.htm

http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/stories/stories.asp?war=W1&id=148


Somme:

West Riding Regiment Roll of Honour:

http://www.addingham.info/war/somme.htm


Also WWII links; I haven't written much about WWII on this Blog:

http://www.jje.info/lostlives/index.html

http://www.users.bigpond.com/peter_pidgeon/richard_cooke.htm


Mouquet Farm & Pozieres:

http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/battlefields/mouquet-farm-1916.html

http://www.jdark.linkt.com.au/williamhenrymurray.html

http://forum.irishmilitaryonline.com/showthread.php?t=9058&page=3

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090161b.htm

http://www.pathsofglory.co.uk/Fred%20Latham.htm (Great Trench Map of Thiepval)

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/return-to-the-somme/2006/04/21/1145344273859.html

http://www.australiandiggers.com/notfound/user_~anzacs/

http://www.blogger.com/publish-confirmation.g?blogID=8681247159603432077&postID=1137088368033242103×tamp=1241465613485&javascriptEnabled=true


I also have an interest in the Vietnam Conflict:

http://www.bmvets.com.au/



Books:

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Ypres%201st%20Battle%20of%20Ieper%20Belgium%201914


Uniforms

http://www.militaria.co.uk/default.asp


Dominion of Canada:

http://www.slideshare.net/Mary_Anne

http://www.archivecdbooks.ca/Samples/CA0209_Samp.pdf

Museums:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/outputRegister/html

Memorials:

http://www.remembering.org.uk/index.htm

Colonialism and Modern America

Just some interesting comments I found about Imperialism.

It reminded me of modern America's war in Iraq.


Since the WMD casus belli failed, the altruistic argument replaced it ("we were liberating the Iraqi people from a totalitarian dictator".

The sixth anniversary of the war will becoming up after St. Paddy's Day in March.

A reminder that real war is Hell:


"Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed.

Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J. Blooms unexpected analysis reveals how the project of remaking the colonies in the image of France was integral to its national identity.

French Colonial Documentary investigates how the promise of universal citizenship rights in France was projected onto the colonies as a form of evolutionary interventionism. Bloom focuses on the promotion of French education efforts, hygienic reform, and new agricultural techniques in the colonies as a means of renegotiating the social contract between citizens and the state on an international scale.

Bloom's insightful readings disclose the pervasiveness of colonial iconography, including the relationship between “natural man†and colonial subjectivity; representations of the Senegalese Sharpshooters as obedient, brave, and sexualized colonial subjects; and the appeal of exotic adventure narratives in the trans-Saharan film genre.

Examining the interconnection between French documentary realism and the colonial enterprise, Bloom demonstrates how the colonial archive is crucial to contemporary

Peter J. Bloom is associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.y debates about multiculturalism in France."