Home of the highly acclaimed ‘LinesMan’ trench map GPS products - Great War Digital Ltd purpose is to conserve historical maps and documents by digital scanning
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After being recovered near St Julien in 2021, the remains of a British soldier have been identified through DNA analysis as Lance-Corporal Claude Stanley Dell of the Yorkshire Regiment.
Today he was laid to rest at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in the presence of his relatives.
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Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Regimental aid post and horse ambulance of the Royal Army Medical Corps in front of Zillebeke, 24 September 1917. IWM Q 6196
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Then and now... this IWM picture (October 2 1918) shows a brigadier-general addressing British troops who had crossed Riqueval bridge over the Saint-Quentin canal, breaking through the Hindenburg Line and helping to end the First World War.
The scene today is far more peaceful.
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Battle of the Somme - August 1916.
Interior of the 'Lochnagar Crater' at La Boisselle. Created by the blowing of a massive British mine near German front-line trenches.
Another striking picture by official War Office photographer - Lieutenant Ernest Brooks.
Image: IWM (Q 912)
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British sentry silhouetted against the backdrop of the ruined cathedral in Ypres, 5th September 1917. IWM Q 3121
Off soon to the Western Front?
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Off soon to the Western Front?
Have you thought about LinesMan? Visit our website for more information on this must-have GPS mapping companion.
It’s more than just a map!
Works on Windows, iPhone, iPad & Android - See: greatwardigital.com
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Argonne - Argonne Forest -
On the map, the trenches look easy to follow, but the chaos there works against you. Trenches crisscrossing each other. So, you just follow a main trench. Eventually, you’ll end up somewhere.
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Trench Map of the area of advance of the 55th Division on 31 July 1917- showing the movement of the original RAP of the 1/4 Loyal North Lancs and the new position after the successful attack later that day at Pommern Castle- formerly a German Redoubt.
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As season 9 of @OldFrontLinePod comes to an end we have some bonus episodes starting with this one about Mapping The Old Front Line:
oldfrontline.co.uk/2026/08/0…
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On this day 8th July 1923, the Brooding Soldier Memorial was inaugurated. The ceremony was attended by a number of relatives of the fallen soldiers and during the greater part of the ceremony four Canadian veterans stood motionless at each corner of the column with arms reversed and head bowed.
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Last month I visited Vauquois, one of the most extraordinary battlefields
• 21 km of tunnels dug
• 519 mines detonated
• A village that disappeared
Today, much of this underground world still survives.
My latest video explores this hidden battlefield
youtu.be/78R1TNc6sZc?si=rjrB…
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Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery and the Australian National Memorial. – at Villers-Bretonneux, France
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A poignant reminder of the first day of the Battle of The Somme from the GWH Collection - Lieutenant Gilbert Hattersley’s blood-stained map showing the planned advance, up Sausage Valley, of the ‘Cambs Suffolks’ (marked ‘D Coy’ on the map), to Contalmaison.
Hattersley was…
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It will soon be time for our July #HuttedHistories talk, with @richardvanemden talking to us about ‘The Search for Francis Mond’.
The incredible story of one woman’s determination to find her son - a pilot killed on the Somme.
For details and tickets:
shorturl.at/SNzSe
