Hello I reports from the different regiments in France 1940 I found these locations: 788495, 793491... I found 10th Brigade as between 805486 and 788515. How can i read those figures? or : Does there exist a map that can help me?? VBR en thanks Bernard,
This website will do the conversion but you have to know/guess the letter code. It's not too hard because you probably have a general idea of where the regiment is. I would suppose the grid in question is somewhere in the "Nord de Guerre" area. The "Coordinates Translator" The grids used on the European Theatre of Operations The alternative would be if the war diary notes the map sheet involved, you could download a big image of the map from one of a number of university websites.
What dates are you looking at ? I have the 4th Div history. Give us more info we might be able to help with those grid references.
What area / town are you interested in, I presume that you have a rough idea of the location, is it around Dunkerque? As Chris states in his post you need to have an idea of the place in question, use the links supplied and you should be able to find what you are looking for. You will see that the various zones are divided into squares, each distinguished by two letters, the square around Dunkerque is VH in the Nord de Guerre zone. If you put those details into the translator you will find this location:- vH788495 = Google Maps A map can be seen here:- https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/belgium_50k/txu-pclmaps-oclc-6624543-tourcoing-52.jpg If this is not the place that you are looking for, use other prefix letters.
Hello, Many thansk for that help. At the end of the week I will try. But the first location was OK. Tomorrow I will be in hospital. Thanks. Bernard
Once you have the relevant prefix letters you can also put the resulting Lattitude and Longitude result onto Google Earth and see the actual land area.
