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Kōrero: Telecommunications

Military phone

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Military phone

New Zealand soldiers in a frontline trench at Gallipoli linked by telephone to staff headquarters in 1915. The contact was unreliable and enemy shellfire could easily disrupt or destroy the makeshift network.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gill Denniston Collection

Reference: PA1-o-863-10-4

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

A. C. Wilson, Telecommunications – Post and Telegraph, 1914–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22013/military-phone (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā A. C. Wilson, i tāngia i te 13 April 2010, updated 1 April 2022.