Once we have driven the enemy from the high ground and established our OPs, communication between HQ and forward artillery observers will be via field telephone. NCOs will pick volunteers to run and repair telephone cable. Patrols will be organised to prevent sabotage.
I can supply 'excellently working' Type D and Type L (period) field telephones if any/anymore are required...
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Thanks for the offer, Rob. We have enough field phones, fortunately. 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Really should have taken me up on that offer of field phones 
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Really should have taken me up on that offer of field phones
We already enough field telephones to open a small shop. I only brought out two and didn't bother to send for a replacement as we had bigger things to worry about than running lines 
I think Rob's point was that most of them didn't work!
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
I think Rob's point was that most of them didn't work!
Hehe, not being picky, and also they weren't really appropriate looking pieces. "Type F"s are HQ phones, and weren't to be found on 'front line' duties, and "250"s were very postwar linesman's phone. The jerry-rigging of the batteries in the "Type F" is what got to us chaps in the RE the most though. Shame we couldn't get the "250" to work.
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
It was a shame after all Rob's work wiring the batteries up that it was the other phone where they just slotted in that didn't work. However I don't think we held anywhere long enough to run a telephone to it!
I have a small skewer hidden in the collar of my jumping jacket, and a razorblade in my gaiter, as well as my knife.
I think Rob's point was that most of them didn't work!
Really? The two type F were working perfectly well at the Mace! 
The appalling Friday afternoon/ evening weather meant we didn't get enough time to test out all the comms kit prior to game on. I'd managed to completely forget to put a battery in one of the German ff33's 
we had to substitue with a modern Brit phone.
Still, these are the sort of problems that occur in combat situations 
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
Peculiar that they didn't work ,Cliff and I had them both working perfectly at Bovington , and when we checked them a couple of weeks ago, just didn't want to leave the batteries in them.
And look at page 313 in the Gordon equipment book for type F phones being used in a forward fighting position, admittedly the other one is post war but it is ex british army and it was lighter an more robust than my other type F, which was also 1943 dated and I didn't mind the case getting battered.
I could have lent out a more authentic ww2 phone ,same as I had more authentic ww2 weapons available to lend if anyone needed them.
I think Rob's point was that most of them didn't work!
Really? The two type F were working perfectly well at the Mace!
No, it was the older Type F that we had to tape the batteries in with D10 cable that did work!
It was the postwar 250, with the inbuilt D-Cell holder, that we couldn't get to function.
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
It may have been the batteries , I just tried them in a torch and they are dead, but the other pack I bought at the same time as spares aren't much better.I usually use the newer phone as a field phone and it has always worked with the Type F before.
