IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 11
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Misc: World War Two Ordnance Survey Maps
Date(s): [1922-1943]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Geographical Section, General Staff; War Office; Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence; German General Staff
CONTEXT
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CONTENT
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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
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, German
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Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre in two separate accessions in 1981
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Nov 1999