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CROONAERT
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| David Briggs wrote: | | 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers - killed in the attack on pill boxes @ Houlthust 26/10/17 - |
1/5th NF's area of attack on that day is shown on this map. Basically, they followed the railway track (mainly to the north of it) from the area of the T Junction and railway crossing (called "Turenne crossroads" - name not shown on map) towards the bottom left of the extract. They didn't get very far that day  (draw a line from schaap balie to the railway line and that's basically where they stopped).
(red squares with the letter"c" are bunkers/pillboxes, etc)
Dave.
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David Briggs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Dave
Astonishing that you can get this level of detail - thank you so much - it should really bring my son's visit to life !
Kindest regards
David |
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David Briggs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Dave
Here is the address of the map I have (2nd page) -it seems to agree with your positioning of things (where did you get your detail from ?) - although your map is to a slightly larger scale - and shows a bit more detail.
On the fairmile map - what do you think the dark blocks indicate ?
Kind regards
David
http://www.fairmile.fsbusiness.co.uk/houthulstattack.htm |
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CROONAERT
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| David Briggs wrote: | | (where did you get your detail from ?) - |
From a seriously mis-spent youth!!! 
Dave
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CROONAERT
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| David Briggs wrote: | | On the fairmile map - what do you think the dark blocks indicate ? |
The hand-drawn ones? Hard to tell - I can't really see it, but there appears to be a word over one of them that may read ?platoon?.They're probably indicators of exactly where certain sub-units (such as platoons?) were at a certain time, possibly the 10.45am mentioned on the bottom of the map.
Dave
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David Briggs
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Dave
Glad to see memories of misspent youth are still so strong (and useful) !
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David |
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