Locations in North Africa, Can anyone help?

Discussion in 'North Africa & the Med' started by 281664, Mar 18, 2016.

  1. 281664

    281664 Active Member

    Hello users,

    Does any one know of a source for finding out the exact locations of camps and forward bases in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Syria and Italy?

    Any help is much appreciated as I am trying to make a relatively precise time line of events.

    Regards,

    Will
     
  2. DaveB

    DaveB Very Senior Member

    I personally believe that the best way to get help is to list all of the places you are interested in, possibly with a copy of the source of your info (just in case you have misunderstood or mis-transcribed something).

    Type it out in sequence including the ones you have already worked out and leave it to the helpful types on here after that.

    Identifying the unit you are interested in could also help.


    Basically don't struggle to do 100% of it yourself when you can crowd-source assistance on this forum. Many of us do it quite often when baffled by provided info.

    cheers & good luck


    Dave
     
  3. 281664

    281664 Active Member

    Hi Dave,

    Thanks for responding. It's always nice to have help but it's also nice to know where people find out all these things!

    Im basically looking for the exact location of the following:

    -Beni Yusef Camp(Egypt)
    -The Camp at Delta (Egypt)
    -American Camp (Kilo 15) (libya/Egypt)
    -199 Transit Camp (Italy)

    Could someone also point me in a direction to find the outlines of defensive positions in North Africa at different stages of the war?

    Thanks in advance,

    Will
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  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    To start the ball rolling:

    Beni Yusef Camp(Egypt)

    Google link to a site - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strawson_(British_Army_officer) which says:

    "On returning to Egypt, the regiment was stationed at Beni Yusef camp in Cairo in the region of Mena, beside the pyramids."

    Not quite exact but quite close I think

    TD
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

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  6. Richard Lewis

    Richard Lewis Member

  7. LRDGEgypt

    LRDGEgypt Member

    Could someone also point me in a direction to find the outlines of defensive positions in North Africa at different stages of the war?

    what would you exactly mean with that?
    1- El Alamein
    2- Gazala
    3- Bir Hakim
    4- Tobruq
    5- El Agheila
    .....
     
  8. 281664

    281664 Active Member

    Hello again gents,

    Thank you for the great response,some great links.

    In terms of defensive positions i am looking at the time where 10th corps moved from Palestine/syria to join Monty's 8th army. The unit im looking at filled the lines with 10th corps.

    Will
     
  9. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    One trick is the use of 'Dezoomify' to turn non-downloadable 'interactive' mosaics into a single full-sized image.

    For instance, this useful 1943 War Office map of Sidi Barrani to Matruh:
    http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/africa/zoomify136541.html

    Put the URL in here:
    Dezoomify

    And you get a 43mb full-sized image to download.

    This also works for photographs on sites that prevent downloads and only allow you to work with the image by moving around and looking at specific sections.

    So searching the British Library online collection for GSGS brings these 285 results:

    See Here:
    Explore the British Library Search - gsgs

    Choose which you want and click the title > Select 'View Online" GO (Red Box) > Click Interactive "Zoomable" to the right of the map > Copy the URL of the page that loads to Dezoomify > Wait while that site generates the full image.

    edit: if you can't get a 'right-click save' from the resulting full image, browsers such as Safari allow you to File > Export as .pdf from webpages.
     
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  10. Richard Lewis

    Richard Lewis Member

    Thanks for that CF. I remember once stitching together about 50 screen shots to make one map. If only I had known about Dezoomify then!
     
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