Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Hand Grenade Dated 1942 - Inert Russian Maxim 1910 Some four or five years

Some four or five years ago IMA purchased a series of Trapdoor Springfield rifles from a well known Internet Auction house

The Regiment was amalgamated in 1881

Sweden soon manufactured their own rifles at the Carl Gustav factory

Harold Seidewaw (sp

Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Hand Grenade Dated 1942 - Inert Russian Maxim 1910 Some four or five yearsOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent original inert example of a very hard to find British ordnance piece from WW2! The British No. 69 I was a hand grenade developed and used during the Second World War. It was adopted into service due to the need for a grenade with smaller destructive radius than the No 36M "Mills bomb". This allowed the thrower to use a grenade even when there was little in the way of defensive cover. In contrast,