No 36 Mills bomb

[cantona1]

Sorry guys, still can not add photos, its saying the file is to big, anyways,
Found a Mk1 Mills grenade base today, early 1940's as it has the tapped hole for the rifle firing rod to be screwed into the base.
Sounds lethal, screw in the rod, insert into the barrel of the rifle, remove the pin and release the clip, fire very quickly before it blows your arm off it was quickly replaced by a cup on the end of the barrel that retained the lever until the blank round was fired in the rifle propelling the grenade at the enemy (hopefully) B-)
Cantona1

[Danzigman]

Pop it to me.. the photo..

[Koala]

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[cantona1]

Cheers Danzigman, on its way.

its very odd where we found it, in a field (with permission) with no history of ever being a WW11 training site, Home Guard maybe? Who knows and we probably never will.
Cantona1

[Danzigman]

Cheers Danzigman, on its way.

its very odd where we found it, in a field (with permission) with no history of ever being a WW11 training site, Home Guard maybe? Who knows and we probably never will.
Cantona1

Yes it was.. Sorry for the wating.. was changing laptop..

[cantona1]

Thanks John, not the best condition but it has WD (war department) over a C, Manufacturer REVO an Electrical company I think, The usual Z , dated 1940, you can just see the No36 around the edge.

I now have a Yank Pineapple grenade head and a Mills bomb base along with several 2 inch British mortar fins all from WW11.

Cantona1

[CookM]

Hi there most likely it was homeguard issue,l have large area in an East Devon farm that was used them and the Auxiliaries and l find no36s and the brass rods that screw into them all over two particular fields on the farm that are locally documented as training areas.
The local history society have a wealth of info from the relatives of these men and when you hear that they were using reimported grenades that had been as far as Mesopotamia,that had to have a blank loaded inte the smle ,pull the pin on the grenade,stick the butt against your boot then pull the trigger before the 15 second later large pop occured,it makes the homeguard look a whole lot braver.Oh the spigot grenades had a range of 100yrds on good day,but a dangerous blast radius of 150yrds whoops.