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Posted: 01 Feb 2019

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Elsie Pritchard telephonist WW1

Elsie Pritchard telephonist WW1
Elsie was my grandmother.

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 Ernest CH
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! ! !
5 years ago.
 Alan Mays
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Quite interesting to see such an early telephone switchboard!
4 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
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Our office still had a similar, although smaller, switchboard system with plug and socket connections, when I started work in the 1960s.
My mother-in-law, who worked on the Post Office Telephones switchboard connecting London to Europe, during WW2, also used a similar system.
4 years ago.
 GrahamH
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The last multi board manual exchange I was involved with replacing, well I was installing links to other places for new dialing exchange, was in 1980/81 at a town in NSW Australia, Glen Innes.
Thanks for showing Phil.
8 months ago.
 Phil Sutters
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I am pleased to be able to share my family's war time experiences. While Elsie was handling civilian phone calls in Hereford, her husband, Howard was out in France and Belgium as an army signaller. He was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, before the Royal Corps of Signals was formed. www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/40256092/in/album/774394 The blue and white armbands indicated that they were signallers. While that made them easily identifiable by officers needing to transmit messages and orders, it could also put them at risk from snipers who aimed to disrupt their enemies' communications.
8 months ago. Edited 8 months ago.

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