In Parenthesis (title, map and dedication)

Item

Title

In Parenthesis (title, map and dedication)

Identifier

6241.jpg
DJNLW_Box_6_LP3.2f6.jpg

Creator

Jones, David (1895-1974)

Abstract

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).

Date

1937

Date Created

1937-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1937-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Drawing

pages

1

number of pages

1

Contributor

Alisa Miller and Alun Edwards

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Subject

Somme