Picture No | 10215277 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | The Grasshopper 1915 |
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A cross-bow device, nicknamed, 'La Sauterelle' or 'The Grasshopper', used by French soldiers to throw bombs twenty to eighty metres from the trenches.
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Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 31 July 1915, page 144 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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