Chad (French Equatorial Africa)
Blipper SMLP made our day yesterday when she sent us this photograph of a hand-painted map of Chad. Her husband bought it in the country in 2003.
This is just the kind of shot that we were hoping for to collect the remaining hard-to-reach locations mentioned in Lorna Lloyd's Diary of the war (previously blipped in full in the LornaL journal, and now available as a podcast series).
This means that we can take French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon) and Lake Chad off our list below - hurrah! These places feature in Lorna's war diary entry of August 29th 1940. The audio version of her commentary appears in Episode 7 of the podcast series.
If you are able to help out with this game of blipper bingo like SMLP has done, please send your contribution(s) (not previously blipped) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk and we will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. The places that we seek to represent are listed below.
ENGLISH CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Bolton
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford
ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern
Caxton Hall, London
EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul, Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, Roncesvalles
Finland: Hanko (Hangö), Mannerheim Line
Germany: Heligoland, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Poland: Silesia, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus, Petsamo province (part of Finland until 1944, Vyborg (Viipuri in Finland until 1944)
Spain: Guernica
REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Egypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)
EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL (i.e. we just need a shot from anywhere in the country listed)
Libya
Romania
Thank you to all the blippers who have already supplied pictures for this project to date:
ArcLight
1bluebell
bibba
CaitlinA
Ceridwen
Colstro
DarkEyedMary
digitaldaze
esiuol
hazelh
hjarald
iaint
Ingeborg
jelleybaby
jonmountjoy
Joyful
LauraMuir
Livresse
Munroist4113
Myceliumme
Nettenet
Pandammonium
Pinkhairedlady
Ridgeback13
rosewiles7
Sallymair
SMLP
SparseRunner
StuartDB
Tigger101
Tweedy
walkingMarj
whome
Winsford
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