10.5287/BODLEIAN8FQ6.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
In Parenthesis (title, map and dedication)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
Somme
2011-11-30 23:10:28.101411
2011-11-30 23:10:28.861332
2011
DJNLW_Box_6_LP3.2f6.jpg
Folio
This colourful manuscript map with cross-rides of the trenches is included in a later Typescript version of the dedication to 'In Parenthesis'. Inscription includes: 6. Map South Wales Borderers at Kinson 57dSE X24 'at 4pm general advance to with 40 yds of North Edge of wood...' Shows direction of advance from Queens Nullah, White Trench and Cliff Trench into Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916 - the subject of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. That cross marks the various phases of the battle for Mametz Wood and line V, Y, O and K is mentioned in 'In Parenthesis' (Part VII).