Maps and other War Office issue British Expeditionary Force ...

Hammer

£50

Maps and other War Office issue British Expeditionary Force documents issued to Lt.-Col C.W. Tribe. Four linen-backed maps in good condition:

Belgium - Antwerp Sheet 3 (1:100,000) 
Belgium - Brussels Sheet 6 (1:100,000) 
France  - Montreuil Sheet 6 (1:80,000) 
N.W. Europe - Sheet 1 (1:250,000)

Together with:

Another, smaller, paper War Office map of Dunkirk: France - Dunkerque - Sheet 2 (1:80,000) marked in crayon 'Tribe'

Standing Orders for the Expeditionary Force by Field Marshall French (Southampton 9th August 1914)

Composition of Army Corps and Cavalry Divisions of the French Active Army (1914)

The Egyptian State Railways (Nov. 1 1915 - April 30 1916) Horaire de Poche (pocket timetable) with pull-out maps of Upper and Lower Egypt annotated in pencil with embarkation notes and Mrs C. F. Nixon's address at 62 St. Michaels Road, Bedford ( both her husband, Capt. Nixon, and Col. Tribe were severely wounded, almost simultaneously, in the Dogras' assault on the German trenches at La Tourelle on May 9th 1915. Nixon was severely wounded again in Mesopotamia on Jan 13th 1916 and Colonel Tribe killed two hours later whilst 'as at Shikh Saad ... leading the advance with great dash, exposing himself in the most gallant manner' ). (The corner of p9 folded to bookmark the Dogra's journey from Port Said to Kantara.)