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| Picture No | 10837054 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Jam-tin, hand-throwing grenade 1914 |
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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.
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| Source | Illustration by Richard Caton Woodville in 'The Illustrated War News', 23 December 1914, part 20, page 35 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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