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Maps for your historical research. Some are quite large but load quickly. Detailed maps showing where the 11th Brigade and the 54th/102nd Battalions operated will follow based on mapping technology from the Imperial War Museum in England.

11the Brigade Orders relating to attack on Vimy Ridge

11th Brigade Operations Order

11th Bde Map

54th Bn Operations Orders

54th Battalion General Area Map

From Canadian Veterans Affairs

Initial Operational site of 54th Bn in St Eloi Belgium, South of Ypres, 1916.

Source Undated National Archives, Ottawa

The St Eloi Battle Area

NEW!!!!!!!

Very detailed area map of the St Eloi Craters drawn by 11 Canadian Infantry Bde

Enhanced version of Canadian National Archives Image here

November 1916 on the Somme from the British Official History of the War published 1938. 54th Bn finished this portion of their wartime service on the dotted line in the lower half of the map.

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Detail from the Somme battle area.

"From BC to Baisieux - the history of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion", 1919 Thos. R. Cusack Presses, Victoria, BC, Canada. Sgt L. McLeod Gould, MSM, Croix de Guerre, p.30

Somme Detail featuring Canadian units at end of Nov 1916, "Canada in Flanders," Maj. Cahrles G.D. Roberts, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918

1 Mar 1917, The Gas Attack, Map courtesy of Nelson Museum

Expanded detail and grid references. Map extracted from upper larger version and overlaid with Global Positioning Sytem WGS84 data.

Thanks to Guy Smith at Smithmaps UK

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GPS Coordinates

Longtitude Latitude/in degrees

Hill 145 2.796950 50.380506

Broadmarsh Crater 2.795523 50.375059

Left of 54th Adv posn 2.787655 50.378610

Rt of 54th Adv posn 2.792188 50.374589

Snargate Left 2.785601 50.377915

Snargate Right-Sombart Left 2.788815 50.375697

Sombart R 2.790487 50.374331

Château De La Haie 2.686082 50.389888

Regina Trench W 2.753679 50.065527

Regina Trench E 2.774268 50.072147

Desire Trench W 2.753678 50.068421

Desire Trench E 2.774051 50.076877

Operational Areas

Apr 9 - 12, 1917

Courtesy of Brent Warne

Vimy Ridge Assault, April 9, 1917, Canada in the Great World War, Vol. IV, The Turn of the Tide, United Publishers of Canada Ltd, 1920, p.151.

Passchendale Operations Oct 26 - Nov 10, 1917, ibid., p.221.

The Battle of Amiens, early Aug 18 Source Undated National Archives, Ottawa

Canadian Corps Breaking the Hindenburg Line, late Aug 18, Source Undated National Archives, Ottawa

Canal du Nord to Cambrai, late Sep - mid Oct 18, Source Undated National Archives, Ottawa

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