German field telephone
When the Armistice was signed in 1918 to end the First World War the German army was required to forfeit much of their military equipment. Huge numbers of items were collected by the War Trophies Commission in London and distributed to museums and institutions across England. This German field telephone was an essential form of communication. It would have been attached to a power source but was otherwise entirely self-contained. Part of the speaker on this example is missing.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 58/1919/10
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- NW
- Collector Excavator
- War Trophies Committee
- Material
- metaltextileleather
- Common Name
- German field telephone
- Simple Name
- telephone
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Year Low
- 1914
- Production Year High
- 1918
