Maps of the Western Front magnet set Pre-cut magnetic pieces to
attach to any metallic surface. The Western Front in France and
Belgium was the decisive theatre of the First World War. It was
there that Australia and New Zealand, fighting between 1916 and
1918 in often unspeakable conditions and at a terrible cost,
made their greatest contribution to Germany’s defeat. This
souvenir magnet set bears the image of a trench map prepared for
the Australian attack at Hamel, on the southern bank of the
Somme River near Villers-Bretonneux, and shows the Australian
and German trenches, and the final objective. Planned by
Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, the commander of the
Australian Corps, the attack was carried out by a composite
Australian division, with some American troops attached, and
British tanks. The objective line was taken in just 93 minutes.
Hamel became the model for the bigger attacks to come. The
original map is titled La Neuville edition 1, and was 1:20,000.
This smaller scale magnet set is create