Temporary Trench Map Page

 

The first two images relate to the work done for a man in Hebden Bridge Yorkshire, named Wayne Ogden.  Over the years he has researched many of his communities men who served and died during the First World War.

The first image is an original scan made by me of a photo post card in my collection – ‘Trench Collection’.  It is from the Hope Baptist Church Roll of Honour. (possibly a temporary item)  in 2015, during the floods in Hebden Bridge Hope Church lost, through water damage, the original. Wayne wished to purchase the post card so he could scan, enlarge, print and then donate it back to the community.

I won the Ebay on line bid, but promised Wayne I would do something with it for the benefit of his community.  The second image is the resulting product.  Note, this type of work, at the present time, is not part of the Trench project plan.

Image one Original scan of postcard

Image 2 the final product delivered to Wayne  11.6.2021     He is very pleased with the result and wishes to help in my wish to test my project with a pilot scheme. Hopefully with people from the Hebden Bridge area.

An aspect of my project is the concept of the ‘Trench Collection’  has been personally acquired by Nick LABAND, (social media – Trench LABAND ‘twitter’)

it currently consists of c. 230 items. These items range from unit histories that include Roll of Honour, Organisational, Educational or Parish Rolls. They come in a variety of formats from ephemera, books, booklets or framed card posters. The information included within them varies greatly from just a name and location, to a formal description of the mans Service history. To take just the ‘Name’ records, the collection amounts to c. 550,000 men / women.

The next two images show an example of a Roll of Honour Project.  The Roll itself is a book dated 1920, called ‘Norfolk Roll of Honour’. It contains 11027 names of the men of Norfolk who died during the First World War.  The Parishes found in the first image are a visualisation of those found in the book

The second image is a zoomed in portion of the parish of Fakenham, County of Norfolk. It shows a visualisation, (no specific location of the man at this stage – another stage of the project for the communities to work with) of a number of Points showing those men who died; c. 70 men.  This is now a complete data base, (11000 names) created by Trench LABAND for the Great War Project.

 

This next image shows the basis of the information I wish to share to communities around the country. It is the ‘Trench Collection’, i.e. the basic locations of all the Rolls I have. The second image in this set, is a close up of West Yorkshire where I have been talking to Wayne; it includes Hedben Bridge – the location of the Roll of Honour shown above.

 

 

This next image indicates the military part of the project. The ‘special reference’ aspect of the core project, (mapping men in the community). It shows Catchment areas for each regiment, at the time – 1910s. Taking Hebden Bridge for example, from this map you can see what regiment was prevalent in that area…

All these images will be posted and highlighted on my other social media like twitter over the next 2 weeks to regain interest into my project…

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