WW1 Attributed Used Trench Fighting Map Dated February 1917.

WW1 Attributed Used Trench Fighting Map Dated February 1917.

This example was used by Captain S J Male MC of the 10th Bn King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

This linen backed full size map is France Sheet 57c SE Scale 1/20,000 and has the trench lines corrected as of the 12th February 1917. 

This example has been folded into four panels as used in the front line, it remains mud smeared with additional small pencil lines and marks. These are in the area of Havrencourt Wood.

The front panel with the name S J Male

A rare known to have been used example and know the Officer who carried the map in the front line.

Captain Sydney John Male MC was commissioned into the KRRC regular Battalions attached to the 10th Bn. He was awarded the Military Cross on the 1st January 1918 and was listed wounded on the 18th September 1918

In February 1917 Havrincourt Wood sat just in front of the formidable new Hindenburg Line, which the German army was actively constructing. The dense, wood and its surrounding sunken roads provided essential concealment for Allied reconnaissance patrols at this time.