Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1944 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres
Scope and content
World War Two maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff and the Army Map Service, US Army, including one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of England and Wales produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of London, Bath and Bristol, Cardiff and the mouth of the Severn, Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth and Dorchester, Bolton and Manchester, 1940-1942; one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of British counties produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1942; 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 scale maps of Germany produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Kiel, Hamburg, Halle, Leipzig, Lubeck, Bremen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Hannover, Osnabrück, Magdeburg, Schwerin, and Munich; Army Map Service, US Army 1:200,000 road maps of France copied from 1939 Michelin guide including of the Carcassonne-Nimes, Avignon-Digne, Auxerre-Dijon, Mons- Luxembourg, and Lyon-Geneve areas, 1943-1944; 1:100,000 map of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:50,000 map of Arnhem, Netherlands, and 1:250,000 map of Amsterdam, Netherlands, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1944; 1:250,000 maps of Italy produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Bologna, Firenze, Genova, and Siena, 1943
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in 1996 by Dr Steve Weiss, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled Nov 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
- Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Netherlands, Arnhem
- France, Avignon
- England, Somerset, Bath
- Italy, Bologna
- England, Lancashire, Bolton
- Germany, Bremen
- England, Avon, Bristol
- France, Carcassonne
- Wales, Glamorgan, Cardiff
- France, Dijon
- England, Dorset, Dorchester
- Italy, Florence
- Germany, Frankfurt
- Switzerland, Geneva
- Italy, Genoa
- Germany, Halle
- Germany, Hamburg
- Germany, Hannover
- England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight
- Germany, Kiel
- Germany, Leipzig
- England, London
- Germany, Lubeck
- Luxembourg
- France, Lyon
- England, Lancashire, Manchester
- Germany, Munich
- France, Nimes
- Germany, Schwerin
- river, Severn
- Italy, Siena
- Netherlands, Utrecht
- England, Dorset, Weymouth
- England, Berkshire, Windsor
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.