Digital Images Archive
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Aldershot Command
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With the area of the Aldershot Command divided between sheets 11 and 12 of the new Third Edition quarter-inch map, it is no surprise that the War Office should have required a single map at the scale to cover the area. It left them free to select the specification they required – the red main roads and railway stations, the blue water, and the brown contours of the civilian map, to which they added their British system Grid with its origin at Dunnose: hence it was not parallel with the sheet lines of the map. The railway lines are still identified by the abbreviations of the pre-grouping company names.
Whether this map was ever updated by recording this important development that occurred within two years is at present unknown. Until this copy was recently found by a member of the Charles Close Society, the only evidence known of its existence is a reference in a War Office catalogue (see Roger Hellyer and Richard Oliver Ordnance Survey small scale maps, London: The Charles Close Society, 2023, page 277).