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- [1922-1943] (Creation)
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2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
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GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 11 [1922-1943] Collection (fonds) 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres Geographical Section, General Staff; War Office; Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence; German General Staff
Presented to the Centre in two separate accessions in 1981
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
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
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.
English, German
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
Date of compilation: Nov 1999 Antwerp Armed forces Belgium Brussels Cartography Europe France German Army Greece Humanitarian law International conflicts International relations Italy Maps Military organizations Netherlands North Africa Occupied territories Organizations South Africa Southern Africa State security Surveying UK Visual materials War Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) London England
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Presented to the Centre in two separate accessions in 1981
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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
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
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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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- English
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- Latin
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English, German
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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
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- English