Map 2: The Battle of Cambrai

RJP: 62Div: Cambrai Latest edit 5 Jan 2010 http://penhey.name/omiwxb662DivMap2Cambrai(p).htm

62nd Division’s Part in the Battle of Cambrai.

The approximately parallel purple pecked lines are the 62 Div divisional boundaries.

Key

British Front Line

Hindenburg Front Line

Hindenburg Reserve Line

Drocourt - Queant Switch

Limit of the division’s advance

62^nd Divisional Boundaries

Road from Bapaume to Cambrai (N 30)

Bourlon Wood

Havrincourt Wood

Places named in the Text

Places not named in the Text

The Canal du Nord

The pecked part of the line of the Canal du Nord represents the Ruyaulcourt Tunnel (photograph thanks to Wikimedia Commons). Though the Canal du Nord features as the western flank of the battle front, it was not at this time a canal. Its construction had begun before the war but was halted by it. In the vicinity of Havrincourt, it was just an earthwork, not yet flooded. In this map with corrections up to 20 Aug 1918, to the west of Havrincourt it is marked as a canal trench and to the north-west of Havrincourt, its bed is marked as forming a road. Near Mœuvres, it is marked as being under construction. The work is shown as ending at the Arras-Cambrai road, D939, beyond which its line is sketched in for about a kilometre before the works are shown as continuing. At its junction with the Canal de la Sensée, it appears to show a coffer dam, keeping the latter’s water out of the Canal du Nord. That it was not a weir is indicated by its absence from a modern satellite photograph. Enlargement of the high resolution version of the map is necessary for seeing these features but is very slow.

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