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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ The National Archives [Kew<nowiki>]</nowiki> Research guide: Military maps of the First World War]. The National Archives maps are '''not''' available online.
:Includes the National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans". The catalogue may be searched through [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14360 Discovery]. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C37203 More details, Western Front maps].
* Guide: [https://www.awm.gov.au/research/guide/maps-westernfront "Finding First World War maps: Western Front"] Australian War Memorial. Includes a list of "Useful references" including ''Report on Survey on the Western Front, 1914-1918'' by Great Britain: War Office: General Staff: Geographical Section (E M Jack) (London: HMSO, 1920) available at the British Library UIN: BLL01005015253, The National Archives WO 161/113, and included in the Western Front Association's set of DVDs ''Mapping The Front'' (believed to be included in every DVD).
*Article [https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/mapping-the-front/ "Mapping The Front"] Western Front Association.
*[https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/pdf/plp/occasional/OccPaper7.pdf "Maps of The First World War: An Illustrated Essay and List of Select Maps in The Library of Congress"] by Ryan J. Moore 2014 ''The Occasional Papers''. Series No.7. A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication. loc.gov
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===Maps===
*Guides and articles**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170302214652/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-mapping/mapping-the-front-great-war-maps-dvd/great-war-map-lists/855-read-a-trenchmap.html "How to read a Trench Map"] by Howard Anderson, October 2008 Western Front Association, now an archived webpage.**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ The National Archives [Kew<nowiki>]</nowiki> Research guide: Military maps of the First World War]. The National Archives maps are '''not''' available online.*:Includes the National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans". The catalogue may be searched through [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14360 Discovery]. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C37203 More details, Western Front maps].** Guide: [https://www.awm.gov.au/research/guide/maps-westernfront "Finding First World War maps: Western Front"] Australian War Memorial. **[http://1stmiddlesex.com/georeferencing/index.htm Great War Mapping 1914-1918] 1stmiddlesex.com. Contains links to ''Report on Survey of The Western Front 1914-1918'' by Colonel E.M. Jack HMSO 1920, see further down this section. **Article [https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/mapping-the-front/ "Mapping The Front"] Western Front Association.**[https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/pdf/plp/occasional/OccPaper7.pdf "Maps of The First World War: An Illustrated Essay and List of Select Maps in The Library of Congress"] by Ryan J. Moore 2014 ''The Occasional Papers''. Series No.7. A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication. loc.gov
*[http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww1/ndx5to40.htm Western Front Maps] from McMaster University, Canada. Text Search using Place Name or Trench Name.
:[https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A34 World War I (1914-1918) [Maps<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Digital Archive@McMaster University Library.
*[https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll11/search/searchterm/World%20War%20I%20Maps/field/digita/mode/exact/conn/and World War I Maps] North Carolina Digital Collections, digital.ncdcr.gov. Mainly France and Belgium. Click on maps to enlarge.
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/18970/ ''Carte du théâtre des opérations: (front occidental) avec répertoire alphabétique''] (Map of the theater of operations [Western Front] with alphabetical directory) is a set of 15 detailed military maps produced in 1915 by the Geographical Service of the French Army. World Digital Library, a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, from National Library of Brazil.
*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1068224 Maps of the French Artillery Survey Group, 1917 - ca. 1919]. USA Army versions, based on French military maps. Contains 9 online French Trench Maps. Click on “Search within this series”, then click on “Archival Descriptions with digital objects” (Left hand side of webpage). Website of The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
:This series contains Plans Directeurs maps. Information about these types of maps is included in the article [https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/15/wwi-map-division "The Great War and Modern Mapping: WWI in the Map Division"] May 15, 2015. New York Public Library.
*German maps of France and Belgium 1916-1918 [https://maps.hungaricana.hu/en/HTITerkeptar/23748/ ''Feldmässig hergestellte Fliegkarte''] (Field produced flying map) catalogued as Repülőtérkép Brügge-Párizs-Genf területére, catalogue reference B V a 207. Hungaricana - Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal. A series of 26 maps.
*A free digitised collection of WWI German Army General Staff Maps showing the location of French, British and Belgian forces on the Western Front from Feb 1916 to Nov 1918, may be requested from the website Digital History Archive, category [http://www.digitalhistoryarchive.com/wwi-document--photo-collections.html WWI Document & Photo Collections], scroll to bottom of the page. Maps are from a Russian archive.<ref>MLW. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/online-german-documents-in-russian-archives.56507/#post-663520 Online German documents in Russian Archives] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 19 March 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/militarymapeleme00maxwrich ''The Military Map; Elements of Modern Topography (French School of War)''] by Gerald Maxwell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Mapsartilleryboards ''Maps and Artillery Boards'']. Reprinted 1917 by Army War College, Washington, [USA] from a Pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916. [http://1stmiddlesex.com/georeferencing/mapsbndbrtilleryboards.htm Transcription of this Pamphlet] 1stmiddlesex.com*''Report on Survey on the Western Front, 1914-1918'' by Great Britain: War Office: General Staff: Geographical Section (E M Jack) (London: HMSO, 1920). [http://1stmiddlesex.com/report/reportonsurveyonwesternfrontasscanned.pdf Scanned version], [http://1stmiddlesex.com/report/reportonsurveyonwesternfrontmoderntext.pdf Transcribed version] 1stmiddlesex.com. Many of the guides and articles above list this book as a useful reference.
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 ''Volume II Maps''] to accompany ''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryatlasoff00arth/page/n9 ''A Military Atlas of the First World War''] by Arthur Banks 1975 Archive.org Lending Library.
