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Description: | D. Ltd 1917
Signal Grenade. Filled by J. Pain & Sons, London DUMMY
First World War period British daylight signal grenade; smoke candle on end of parachute; for land and naval use.
Sheet steel cylinder, painted khaki with black serpentine (denotes colour of smoke candle); threaded brass spigot on top for housing detonator/stiker with split safety pin/ring; steel washer on base with threaded hole in centre into which screws steel rifle rod.
(Component parts: grenade, pin, rod) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | J Pain and Sons, London | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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