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November 5th 1916 near Gueudecourt, Somme, France
Maps of the areas of the November 5th 1916 Attack
These are general maps showing most (if not all) of the November 5th attack. For more specific maps please see the two attack pages and/or the battalion attack pages.
For more specific maps please refer to the relevant attack/battalion pages.
My research is still continuing, so there will be more maps added to this page as I go, so do not forget to check back.
 Attack Map for November 5thSource: Photograph taken of the map held in the Australian War Memorial |  battlemap_07_somme1916Source: New Zealand government website |  Somme Aerial PhotographWorld War One battlefield |
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 Body Density MapThe blue numbers on this section of a larger map refer to soldiers killed on the battlefield of the 1916 Somme battlefield. It is the work of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Messer (Assistant Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries in France), who undertook to record the crosses of the Fallen on the battlefield and register their location, and then to re-inter the bodies together in larger cemeteries. |  Western Front |  ANZAC Corps 5th November 1916"The 1st ANZAC Corps sector of the Somme Battlefield on 5th November, 1916" taken from the Official History of Australia in War. |
 War Diary MapOctober 1916 |  Eucourt labbaye & GueudecourtJan 1917 |  Eucourt labbaye & GueudecourtJan 1917 |
 SommeMap for 1916 |  Le TransloyArea map of Le Transloy |  Flers & GueudecourtOctober 1916 |
 Le Transloy |  Bezentin, Flers & GueudecourtSep 1916 |  German Trench Map |
 German Trench MapMap for November |
This map plot's various key locations linked to the two attacks undertaken by the Australian Infantry Forces on November 5th, 1916.
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