World War One Map of the Western Front - Dixmunde to Arras, Belgium & France - 1915

Original map first published c.1920. Republished July 2016.

World war one map depicting the Western Front, Dixmunde, Belgium to Arras, France during World War One 1914 - 1918. The inset map features the Ypres Hills and Flanders Marshes. Major battles are mapped, including Ypres, Arras and Cambrai.

When this map was published:

As published at the time of this map, c.1920:

Dixmunde and Arras are the limits of a stretch of Belgian and French territory where were fought some of the fiercest battles of the war. As these engagements were of such importance, separate maps, illustrative of the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Lens and Arras, Loos and Hohenzollern, Ypres and Messines are featured separately. The present map covers a very important section of the western front whose value was exemplified in prolonged and costly offensives undertaken by both Allies and the Germans. In this section the Ypres sector, scene of Britain's undying heroism, and the district around Lens and Loos so prominently identified with British sacrifice and valor.