Collection MISC11 - WORLD WAR TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF UK AND EUROPE

Key Information

Reference code

MISC11

Title

WORLD WAR TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF UK AND EUROPE

Date(s)

  • [1922-1943] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres

Scope and content

World War Two ordnance survey maps of the United Kingdom and Europe, mainly 1 inch, prepared by the Geographical Section, General Staff, and the War Office, for use by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), including 1:40,000 map of Antwerp, Belgium; 1:100,000 map of Brussels, Belgium; 1:5,000,000 map of South Africa; 1:250,000 map of Italy; and 1:50,000 map of Northeast France. Also included are German survey maps of North Africa and Northern Greece, and 1:300,000 map of the Netherlands with manuscript outline of German Army occupation districts, 1940-1943

General Information

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre in two separate accessions in 1981

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English
  • German

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Nov 1999

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area