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 |