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where is "Caribou camp" ?

west of Elverdinghe

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#1 Bart.D.D

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 06:46 PM

Can someone help me with the exact location of Caribu camp ?
According the WD it is somewhere (in marching distance)  west from Elverdinghe

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:47 AM

Here you go Bart..........50*53.320N,  2*46.801E (map from "Linesman" digital mapping package....)
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 09:07 AM

In the field just across Canada Farm cemetery

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#4 Bart.D.D

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 04:20 PM

thank you so much for the map and the picture !!!
I will go there in the weekend and have a look.

Do you know from what year that map extraxt is ?



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Posted 27 June 2012 - 04:53 PM

Map, July 1918 Bart.....
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