Description
Object description
First World War vertical and oblique aerials taken over the Western Front.
Album one marked as 'Aerial Photographs 1916 of Somme Battlefield 1916, Ancre, Beaumont Hamel, Puisieux' contains the following prints:
Verticals:
20.4.16 57R 31 57Q 36b
25.4.16 57dR 23.29ab 22N.47
17.6.16 57dQ 11bcd.12c.17b.18a. 4C.216
6.8.16 57cM 2cd.8ab 4.AE.67. Pys.
6.8.16 57cG 31bd.32acd. 4.AE.68
6.8.16 57cG 32d 57cM 2abd.3a. 4.AE.74
25.8.16 57dR 19c 57dQ 24bd 4.AE.269. Maisie Lane.
8.9.16 57dR 19 4AE.467. W. end Schwaben Redoubt and Maisie Lane.
8.9.16 57dL 33d.34c 57dR 3bd.4. 15.AE.266. Miraumont and Miraumont Alley.
22.9.16 57dR 10d.11c.16b.17a. 15.AE.364. Grand Court Trench.
10.10.16 57dQ 10d.11c. 4.AE.795
10.10.16 57dR 6 57cM 1. 7.AE.1229. Handel Road, South Miraumont trench, crest trench, below trench, Bowdler Redoubt, Pys.
10.10.16 57dQ 10b.11a. 4.AE.794.
21.10.16 57dR 7d. 15.AE.579.
4.12.16 57dQ Central. 5.AE.350. Annotated print.
20.12.16 57dQ 12b. 15.Ae.804. Annotated print.
20.12.16 57dQ 6d. 15.AE.805. Annotated print.
31.1.17 57dR 2cd. 15.AE. 967. Annotated print.
25.1.17 57dL 17d.23a. 4.AE.1191. Annotated print.
2.2.17 57dL 15ac. 5.AE.600. Puisieux.
2.2.17 57dL 16b.17a. 7.AE.1672.
2.2.17 57dL 17. 7.AE.1674. Resurrection trench.
2.2.17 57dL 17cd.23ab. 7.AE.1680.
3.2.17 57dL16d.17c. 5.AE.618.
1.3.17 57cG 13b.14c.20a. 5.AE.719. Annotated trenches in the area surrounding Achiet-le-Petit.
4.3.17 57cG 34cd 57cM 4ab. 3.AE.102. Annotated trenches in the area surrounding Loupart Wood.
7.7.17 51bL 24.18 51bG 13.14. 11.MA.915.
4.9.17 62bG 24.30ab. 59L.1504.
21.8.17 62bA 21.22.23.27.28. 18M.129.
3.4.17 51bU 27b. 4.AE.1692.
3.4.17 51bU 22d.26b. 4.AE.1693.
25.3.17 51bU 30d 4.AE.1661.
Obliques:
7.10.16 (no plotting reference) P.23V.21. Serre. Annotated with trenches, railways, and key features.
10.10.16 (no plotting reference) P.23V.23. Bois d'Holland.
10.10.16 (no plotting reference) P.23V.32. Annotated trenchs in the area surrounding Beaucourt Road and Pendant Copse.
21.5.17 51bU 18d. P.18.v.117. Riencourt.
Album two marked as 'Aerial Photographs 1916 Somme Battlefield, ancre, Beaumont Hamel, Puisieux' contains the following prints:
Verticals:
18.3.18 62cL 4.5.10.11. 8.AE.Z.775
18.3.18 62bA 2.3. 8.AE.B.445
18.3.18 62bA 18.24. 4B.V.2746
18.3.18 62bA 24.30. 4B.V.2747
18.3.18 62bH 25.31. 4B.V.2754
18.3.18 57bS 1.2.7.8. 8.AE.B.449
18.3.18 57cX 6. 57b S.1.2. 8.AE.B.450
18.3.18 57cR 27.28. 8.AE.A.489
18.3.18 57cR 21.22.27.28. 8.AE.A.491
18.3.18 57cR 27.23. 8.AE.A.492
18.9.18 57bS 26.27 62b A 2.3. 8.AE.B.452
Obliques:
6.3.18 57dV 15d.1.1. 35.AE.O.122
3.6.18 57dV 25b.4.6. 35.AE.O.114