April 5, 2024
US Army restrictd manual WW1 Messines Ridge Battle maps
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The Attack of the British 9th Corps at Messines Ridge, printed by the War Department, Army War college, August 1917, just a couple months after the battle..This very Rare WW1 document is Marked "Secret and confidential For Official Use Only -- Not to be taken into Front-Line Trenches" Boxed in a cardboard slipcase marked identically with a 148-pps paperback book. contains 10 detailed folding maps of order and progress of battle; instructions for WW-1 BEF offensive launched near the village of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium on June 7, 1917, known as the 2nd Battle of Ypres or "Flanders Fields", a prolonged blood bath undertaken to take pressure off the French Army in mutiny after Verdun. Inventoried book plus all 10 maps; this is a complete set..1917. tying slipcase is in poor condition, has water damage and and rough edges but it has kept the other documents in good/decent condition...a very rare World War 1 collectible, used by an Army Major in the first World War...A piece of history... The Battle of Messines was a battle of the western front of the First World War . It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen (Messines) in West Flanders , Belgium. The target of the offensive was a ridge running north from Messines village
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