Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: telephone

My grandmother was a telephonist during WW1*. My mother-in-law worked on the international switchboards during WW2, following the fall and liberation of European countries, via the phone traffic passing through her exchange. * www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/48054308/in/album/774394

This photo was taken during the annual Airbourne airshow. The large mesh screens would not usually be there.

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park 'telephones' week. Howard was my grandfather. He is the one lounging back in his shirt-sleeves. I guess that this was taken while training in England. These troops would eventually be formed into the Royal Corps of Signals. They laid thousands of miles of telephone cables along and between the trenches in France and Belgium. I know that he was at the battle of Ypres, but little else about his war.

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