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Stowmarket, Suffolk
Collection of British First World War Trench Maps, the maps are attributed to Brigadier General Herbert Cecil Potter (10/10/1875-11/6/1964) Officer Commanding the 9th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, during the Battle of the Somme and 3rd Battle of Ypres, the maps, detailed below, are of areas in which Potter served throughout the war from 1914 and include detailed information of enemy trenches marked in red on each map, some are particularly evocative, the map of Hebuterne containing the village of Serre with 'Matthew', 'Mark', 'Luke', 'John' Copses, all clearly marked and bring to mind the tragic first day of the Battle of the Somme, a map of Delville Wood is annotated in pencil with 'Delville Wood and Guillemont, 9 Bde attack 16/8/1916' , another map gives the 'German Order of Battle, Cambrai 1 Dec 1917', a map of the 'Seine, Meuse, and Rhine Basins Showing Areas of Occupation of the Allied Armies Jan 1919' is marked with the ink stamp of 'HQ 9th Infantry Brigade', the maps were given to the vendor when a young man by General Potter's son Major Cecil Potter, a family friend in Somerset, some are heavily used and stained with the mud of the front line, many of the annotations on the maps are believed to have been made by General Potter contemperaneously, while some, particularly on the French made maps, are believed to have been done by Major Cecil Potter post warBrigadier General Herbert Cecil Potter CB, CMG, DSO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, educated at Bedford Modern School and Sandhurst, joined the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant 29/2/1896, promoted Lieutenant, March 1899, then Captain, December 1900, seconded to a Mounted Infantry Column in South Africa 1901-02 (2nd Boer War) served in the Sudan in 1908 and the Western Front throughout the First World War, wounded through both legs in August 1914, he returned to the front line and given command of 9th Infantry Brigade in April 1916, during the Battle of the Somme General Potters recce of High Wood with two other officers, and the realisation that it was clear of Germans and could be occupied easily is detailed on Page 137/138 of 'Somme' by Lyn MacDonald, '...There was not a German to be seen. The commanders decided to look for themselves. General Potter of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division, with Lieutenant Colonel Elliot and Major General Watts Commander of the 7th Division were not so foolhardy as to expose themselves by walking along the track at the top of the slope but, hugging the the shelter immediatley below, clambered along to the ruined windmill, a hundred yards or so to the right.... looking across the gentlest of valleys, where the ridge on which they stood sloped down to a hollow and rose almost imperceptibly to the dark mass of High Wood itself,...Nothing stirred in the cornfields. High Wood was silent...Then they crossed the cornfield almost to the edge of High Wood. Not a shot was fired. High Wood was empty. Jubilant, excited, and anxious to push ahead, they almost ran back to the line. The troops were fresh and ready to go...', tragically, the information was not acted on in time, the Germans reoccupied the wood and High Wood was not taken until September after heavy fighting and many casualties, Potter was twice wounded at the Somme in August 1916, the second time by a 'large shell which sat down beside me and made me stone deaf for some days', Potter also served at the Battle of Arras April-May 1917, and the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) July-November 1917, as well as the Queens South Africa Medal with three clasps Potter was awarded a medal and clasp, 4th Class Osmanieh, 3rd Class Mejidieh in Sudan (1908),mentioned in depatches in WW1, decorated with the Legion of Honour by Sir Douglas Haig in November 1915, made DSO in 1917 and CMG in 1918, he retired from the army in 1927, the maps included in the lot are;Delville Wood Map, large scale, trench lines/road names marked in red (Fleet Street, High Holborn, Bond Street, Regents Street, etc) with reverse marked in pencil (believed by Major Cecil Potter) 'Delville wood and Guillemont, 9 Bde attack 16/8/1916'Trench Map - Hebuterne, Ordnance Survey 1916, scale 1:10,000 , 'Trenches corrected to 19:8:16', trench lines printed in red, additional markings in pencil (Bounderies, Pendant Alley, etc),'Matthew Copse', 'Mark Copse', 'Luke Copse', 'John Copse', which formed part of the British front line and forming up points for some of the Pals battalions are clearly marked, front of map marked 'Brigadier, Serre, Aug 1916''Seine, Meuse, and Rhine Basin Showing Areas of Occupation of the Allied Armies Jan. 1919', 1:1,000,000 scale map, showing Belgian, British, American, and French zones outlined in red, marked in pencil 'Occupation zones of the Rhineland 1919' bears stamps of 'HQ 9th Infantry Brigade' and 'General Staff 3rd Division' dated 7th February 1919French issue map of Melun, 1:80,000 scale, bottom left corner marked 'Revisee 1888', marked in pencil 'France, 1/80,000 map of Melun area (SE of Paris) probably issued in case of further retreat by BEF in August 1914'Map of Cambrai, 1:100,000 scale, British intelligence map showing German Order of Battle, Army Groups, Armies, Corps, Divisions, down to Regiments, including rest billets, all printed in red, marked to reverse 'German Order of Battle, Cambrai, 1 Dec 1917'Trench map, Ordnance Survey 1915, sheet 36c N.W. 3 and part of 1, scale 1:10,000, shows town of Loos, trench lines in red including 'Loos Road Redoubt', marked to the front in pen '**** 1915'Trench Map, scale 1:10,000, France, La Bassee, trenches marked in red including Holenzollern Redoubt, units marked in pen (19th Bde, Kings, 2nd South Staffords), marked to the front in pencil '1915'Trench Map, France, Sheet 57c S.W., scale 1:20,000, trench lines marked in red, Bazentin, Longueville, Guillemont, High Wood, Delville Wood, Flatiron Copse, Sabot Copse, Arrow Head copse, etc all shown, mud stained, marked in pencil to front 'Bazentin/High Wood'French issue map, Provins, marked bottom left corner 'Revisee 1888', marked in pencil 'Large scale map of Provins area (SE of Paris) probably issued in case of further retreat by BEF in August 1914', (qty)
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19 Jul 2023 10:00 BST
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18 Jul 2023 09:30 - 16:30 BST
19 Jul 2023 09:00 - 10:00 BST
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