Friday, December 8. 2006

GIS Helps Detect WWI Battle Artifacts

A geographer at Middle Tennessee State was at the heart of the discovery of artifacts from battle where Sergent York won his medal of honor in World War I in France. A team from several institutions found more than 1,400 artifacts in Chatel-Chehery, France during a November expedition.

Specifically, [Geographer Tom Nolan] used GIS to synthesize spatial information obtained from historic French and German battle maps and maps annotated by York’s commanding officers, Col. G. Edward Buxton and Maj. E. C. B. Danforth, with written accounts by both German and American participants. This information was then superimposed upon the modern landscape to help the researchers focus their metal-detection fieldwork.

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A friend's estate contains several artifacts from WW I. An example is "The Officer's Mess Membership Card" from Brest France dated January 15th 1919. Are you, or could you point me to a resource for gifting or possible sale? Thank you, and...

Best regards,

John C. Stires III
Rancho Santa Fe, CA

#1 john stires on 2007-01-05 20:48 (Reply)

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