Here's something I found in a long-defunct Essex junk shop, 30 years ago. I've always liked it. 'Benghazi 1946' it says - most likely sold to post-war garrison troops in the local bazaar.
But it's cut down from an honest-to-gosh '88' casing, dated 1939 with primer dated 1940. There must have been a lot of these lying around for the locals to collect for scrap.
It travelled all the way from Germany to the Western Desert and then to England - I wonder if it was one of 'Rommel's 88s'.....?
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