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Canadian signallers using a German rifle as a telephone pole, during World War I
Canadian signallers using a German rifle as a telephone pole, during World War I
This photograph provides an example of the resourcefulness that soldiers serving in World War I would sometimes have to demonstrate. Two Canadian soldiers are pictured fixing telephone lines to a captured German rifle embedded in the ground. Discarded ammunition lies in the right foreground. The job of a signaller was to send messages between the lines and command posts. In World War I telephon…
Subject
- Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Rifles (long guns)
- Soldiers
- Telephone systems Record Type: concept Telephone systems
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Subject
- Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Rifles (long guns)
- Soldiers
- Telephone systems Record Type: concept Telephone systems
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Identifier
- 74549212
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:55.400Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:46:16.596Z