posted on 2024-05-02, 08:42authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
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).
History
Identifier
6241.jpg | DJNLW_Box_6_LP3.2f6.jpg
Subject
Somme
Creator
Jones, David (1895-1974)
Date
1937
Date Created
01/01/1937
Temporal Date
31/12/1937
Spatial
Unknown
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Drawing
Pages
1
Number of Pages
1
Contributor
Alisa Miller and Alun Edwards
Rights
The National Library of Wales / The David Jones Literary Estate