field telephone

In order to distract eavesdropping Germans, he pretends to talk on a field telephone to a superior officer: “About the morale, sir, it’s been rather low. The main complaint seems to be about the evening movie … I’ve had to show ‘Road to Morocco’ now five evenings in a row, sir … The men are beginning to get a little surly.”

There were World War II relics such as medic bags, a field telephone and helmets.

As a post office worker, he was assigned to the Royal Engineers, fighting with the 53rd Division, in order to lay vital telegraphy and field telephone systems.

He says Russian electronic warfare systems can detect and intercept mobile phones and radios, but pointing to his ancient field telephone, Vlad says: "This technology is very old - but it works really well."

An antiquated field telephone sits in a wooden nook; these are conditions their grandfathers would recognise.