Map Showing Wet Areas On Passchendaele Front 1917

Old map of Belgium, Flanders, Passendale.

2 in the areas to the north and east of Passchendaele village shown on the map. Apart from the German defenses (in red), the most notable features of the map are the blue-shaded areas. They mark the extensive wet and waterlogged areas facing the front. Exacerbated by poor weather and the devastation of the ground by the intense artillery bombardment, these conditions had hampered the Allied advance. The confused and fluid nature of the terrain was such that the strong blue line marking the front is only an approximation. No further British advances would take place at Passchendaele, and the gains made would be lost to German advances in the following spring.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:10,000|Shelfmark: Maps C.14.c.252"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color.
• Original resource at: The British Library.
• Content in English.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Subjects

Battlefields

Belgium

Flanders

Germany. Army

Great Britain. Army

Manuscript Maps

Military Maps

Passendale

Trench Warfare

World War

1917

Map Tags

1917

Battlefields

Belgium

Flanders

Germany. Army

Great Britain. Army

Manuscript Maps

Map

Military Maps

Passendale

Trench Warfare

World War