British No 36 "Mills Bomb" Grenade
Article about: Hi Everyone, Thought I would share some photos of a nice, original No. 36 Mills Bomb that came my way. These are not so easy to obtain anymore, especially here in the states. If you look clo
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Re: British No 36 "Mills Bomb" Grenade
nice score...
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Re: British No 36 "Mills Bomb" Grenade
Nice one Tim. Have you read 'Three Day Road'? Talk alot about these Mills Bombs in there.
Regards,
Finn
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Nice to see the detonator/fuse onboard ...
(I presume this has been made safe ??)
Have a look here for further grenade details ....
http://www.millsgrenades.co.uk/
JHW = John Harper, Willenhall Staffordshire.
Regards
Gary J.
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I recall that back in 1969/70, our regiment went on the ranges at Mourmelon-Le-Grande to do some grenade-throwing. The grenades came in a long wooden box with (I think) eight grenades on each side of the box, with a round tin in the middle full of fuses and a baseplate tool.
We were each given a Mills-bomb (1939 dated) to prime ourselves. First, you had to scrape the protective wax off them before removing the baseplate and inserting the fuse. We then took it in turns to go down to the firing-point. The drill was to pull the pin, throw (or bowl) the bomb and count to three before ducking down in the slit-trench. One lad threw his bomb and it failed to go off. Captain Carruana had to go out (after the required wait of one ninute) to retrieve the bomb, and when he removed the baseplate he saw there was no fuse in it. That squaddie had a very sore arse by the time Carruana had finshed booting him!
For those of us waiting further back for our turn, it proved to be rather hair-raising. The baseplates of the exploding bombs were whizzing all over the place!
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