Rear Area Camps at Vimy Ridge

The map below is where the Canadian Army had their camps during the time they were in the Vimy Sector. The Blue Box and numbers link to the table below. Click the map to see the number. (FL – Feb 6/22)

What you see below is just one of the benefits of joining COBWFA. The numbers below are the GPS coordinates of the camps mentioned in numerous war diaries.

More is coming soon on where they went when they marched east in the first week of April, 1917.

This is just one of the maps from the report on Vimy Ridge Operations as held at the National Archives –

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Here are the GPS Coordinates for the 40 camps above

Camp	Lat	Long
1	50.43343	2.643666
2	50.42801	2.634805
3	50.41249	2.675593
4	50.40447	2.651769
5	50.40343	2.64357
6	50.39982	2.645135
7	50.39834	2.63905
8	50.39604	2.642083
9	50.39577	2.65255
10	50.39374	2.655986
11	50.39887	2.675042
12	50.39748	2.697623
13	50.39116	2.669079
14	50.39249	2.665656
15	50.39384	2.662777
16	50.38747	2.660455
17	50.39173	2.655481
18	50.38882	2.640321
19	50.39606	2.614367
20	50.37205	2.678552
21	50.37245	2.664823
22	50.36981	2.656179
23	50.3677	2.654454
24	50.37073	2.648281
25	50.37638	2.637438
26	50.37496	2.634884
27	50.38027	2.618886
28	50.37898	2.619862
29	50.36371	2.68347
30	50.36093	2.682844
31	50.35773	2.689292
32	50.35573	2.688652
33	50.35484	2.681332
34	50.35757	2.678562
35	50.35879	2.673104
36	50.36057	2.676194
37	50.34259	2.685374
38	50.34008	2.686102
39	50.34055	2.676719
40	50.33997	2.672518