[78-L] Decca trench model

[Ron L'Herault]

I have a bit of a Frankenphono, in that I believe it is the trench model case, but a later motorboard and reflector.  It's fairly heavy but sounds loud and clear.  I could not find a picture of one exactly like mine.    This one is close but mine has metal corner and edge protectors.  One photo I found on line has shadows of the protectors, probably removed because of rust. 

https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/IMAGES/029I-12XFROWX1988-0001A0.jpg

Ron L

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In 2009, Tim Cook of the Canadian Military Museum had recently mounted an exhibition about the minutiae and ephemera of a soldier's life in WWI.  He produced a series of articles which became a book in 2018, "The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War"

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There was also a proliferation of gramophones on which to play the latest hits; these were purchased by the men or their units, or loaned to fighting formations by the YMCA. Even in the front lines, an officers’ mess or a dugout might have a gramophone, with Decca creating a dedicated trench model.  These contraptions were not always appreciated by some of the older men. Colonel J.J. Creelman, the crusty commander of the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, wrote in his diary of a new "Columbia gramophone" that had been purchased collectively by the junior officers, and the "infernal thing is at present ripping out Humeresque."  A younger officer, Lieutenant Andrew Miller, was more in tune with the popular culture, writing to his "dearest Ruth" of a small party that he and fellow officers had in a dugout:

After dinner we had various selections on their gramophone . . . 
to help to lend cheer to the occasion. . . .With your letter 
coming and the music[,] even if it was only a gramaphone[,] and
our concerted efforts accompanying it in songs we knew and the 
company of fine fellows I think it was the happiest evening I 
have ever had in France. . . . So you see it is not all shells
and war and frightful things over here.
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My question is, can anyone point me to a Decca trench model?
- Stephen in Calgary
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