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Italian Grenades of the Great War Part Three – The S.I.P.E. Hand Grenade

Back in the world of hand grenades that look like hand grenades (at least to those of us of my generation), this is one of the most common types of defensive grenade used by Italian troops during the Great War. 

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Italian Grenades of the Great War Part Two – The Carbone Type C Hand Grenade

Those of you with good memories might be thinking that I’ve shown you this type of wire-handled grenade before. 

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Betchworth – St. Michael’s Churchyard, War Memorial & War Memorial Hall

Another locked church, I’m afraid,… …but the war memorial makes our visit worthwhile. The panels of the memorial list twenty nine men killed in the Great War, with the names of eight Second World War casualties on the angled base … Continue reading

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Italian Grenades of the Great War Part One – The Lenticolare M.14 Hand Grenade, Aasens & Other Tales

Which also happens to be the answer to Mystery Item No. 2. 

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And Finally……Weird Scenes from the Carpathians

The Austro-Hungarians could be quite weird too. 

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My, What Big Hands You Have……

Continuing the theme, here’s some more weirdness from the other side.  The literal translation is ‘substitute women in the field’.  Form an orderly queue, boys.

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It’s All Very Odd……

I do hope you enjoyed the opportunity for a glimpse at the chaos behind the scenes here at theBigNote.  I refer to the post from earlier today that quite obviously was not intended to be published and, curiously, wasn’t actually … Continue reading

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