Jam-tin, hand-throwing grenade 1914
British soldiers in the early part of World War One at the front. Using Jam-tin, a home-made grenade which was made with jam and bully beef tins filled with small pieces of iron and a few ounces of gun-cotton, fitted with a fuse, then fired with a primitive device a long piece of timber and a trigger catapult
Picture No
10837054
Media ID
46681090
Size
4097px x 4884px
(5.9MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Richard Caton Woodville in The Illustrated War News', 23 December 1914, part 20, page 35
Date
1914
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