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Mills Bomb No 5 hand grenade, used during World War One, 1915. Oval cast iron segmented body with handle and split pin. Marked on base plate with grenade number and maker?s name P B and Company
German propaganda poster, WW1German propaganda poster, encouraging women to work in the Home Army during the First World War, for example by working in munitions factories to make grenades for soldiers to use. Date: 1914-1918
Sectional view of a Mills grenade, WW1Drawing reproduced from a German weekly newspaper article which gave particulars of British and Russian hand grenades. Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4 illustrate the Mills grenade. Date: 1918
World War One soldiersOn les a souscrivez a la London County and Westminster Bank (Paris) Ltd : poster illustrated by three World War One soldiers, Scots Guard, French and British infantrymen in battle
Stalingrad SoldiersRed Army soldies lie in wait amongst the ruins
The German as a grenadier 1918Two distinct kinds of grenades were used by the Germans in World War One, these were namely, those which rely on explosive effect alone, and those which supplement by bursting into fragments
Mills hand grenade
WW1 - A Mills hand grenade
Throwing Mills Grenades in Trenches 1917Drawing showing the proper way in which a hand grenade should be thrown, safety pin removed, holding the lever down then pulling back, and lobbing it high into the air towards the enemies trenches
Grenadier of the Foot Guards with grenade and match alight, Battle of Prestonpans (or Battle of Gladsmuir), East Lothian, Scotland, 21 September 1745, during the Jacobite Rising. Date: 1745
Comic postcard, Drunken man with bottle - We re all going Bang on the Bust! Date: 20th century
Tinkers mortar grenade throwerTinkers mortar which was fixed on a stick and used to throw grenades. Copperplate engraving by J. Hamilton from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army
Woman in grenadiers hat called the VictoryWoman in grenadiers bicorn called the Victory of d Estaing, after French naval hero Charles Hector, comte d Estaing. Chapeau a la Grenade dit la Conquete de Destaing; Handcoloured copperplate
British soldier about to throw a hand grenade, during the storming of a German trench
Mills hand grenade made as an ink standA Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand on a glazed metal base, inscribed Memento of the Great War. Actual hand grenade casting as used by the Allies. Registered Number - 651542. 1915
WW1 - German discus grenade, 1914 (c)-1918. With metal tagGerman discus grenade, 1914 (c)-1918. With metal tag. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum. Date: 1918
German ?egg? hand grenade, used during World War One, 1914-1918; cast iron egg shaped grenade, painted black, with small wire loop on top of ignitor. Date: 1914
No 23 Mills rifle grenadeNo. 23 Mills rifle grenade. The red band denotes explosive filling whilst the pink denotes the type of explosive, i.e. Ammorial or Bellite.. Firearms & Equipment
Types of grenades in WWIThe Marten Hale hand grenade, which can be also fitted to any type of service rifle. Hale time grenade, bomb is thrown, the ignition of the time-fuse does not occur until the grenade reaches a
Bomb party using cigarettes to light fuses, WWIA bombing party detachment of the Buffs at Bethune using cigarettes to light fuses in the pouring rain before throwing. The men held off the Germans for 17 1/2 hours
Japanese Type 91 grenade, 1931-1945. Date: 1931
WW1 - Vaneless Hales Pattern Mk I / L, . 303 in No 20 rifle gVaneless Hales Pattern Mk I/ L, . 303 in No 20 rifle grenade, used during World War One, 1916; made by Western Electric Company. Date: 1914
WW2 - Patriotic Czech League in London - Way to go to it. Many of the Czech soldiers (and civilians) that had managed to escape from Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded in 1939
Hand Grenade used by the Latvian national partisans. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia
Berlin Goddess. 580-560 BC. From KerateaBerlin Goddess. 580-560 BC. Kore from the cemetery of Keratea (South of Attica). Detail. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany
Jam-tin, hand-throwing grenade 1914British 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
French bracelet grenade, which hooked around the throwers wrist with a strap or thong. Innocuous while in the mans hand, the jerk as the grenade extends the strap
Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink standA Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand on a round glazed metal base, inscribed Memento of the Great War. Actual hand grenade casting as used by the Allies. Registered Number 651542
Bomber A soldier in the act of throwing a hand grenadeBomber. A soldier in the act of throwing a hand grenade. The wooden base has a silver and enamel badge of the Middlesex Regiment. Sydney Wilkinson
Gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops, Volhynia, WW1A gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops of the Landwehr Reserve Batallion at Volhynia (Wolhynien) on the eastern front in north-west Ukraine during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1916
German or Austrian soldiers with hand grenades, WW1German or Austrian soldiers throwing hand grenades during the First World War. 10 September 1917
Soldiers WWISoldiers sheltering in a grenade pit in Flanders during World War I
Communist China - sorting weapons and ammunitionCommunist China - soldiers sorting weapons and boxes of ammunition captured from the enemy, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s
The Sikh Bomber.Statuette on plinth with four silver plaques, with inscriptions.Silver by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company Limited, hallmarked London, 1951-1952.The standing figure of Mohan Singh
Women WW1 Munitions Hand GrenadeA studio portrait of a woman munition worker in mob cap and overalls. She stands in front of a small table on which lays a union flag. In her right hand she holds a hand grenade. Date: circa 1916
WW1 German poster, Art ExhibitionGerman poster, Art Exhibition, soldier with hand grenade. circa 1918
Rifles and machine guns used by the Latvian national partisans. Context of the Second World War. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia
Playing the Game 1905 and 1915Cartoon contrasting a schoolboy aiming snowballs with his older self, ten years later, transferring his skills in the trenches and readying himself to show some grenades
The latest warfare, bomb thrower in action, WW1Stopping a counter attack after carrying the first line of enemy trenches. A British bomb thrower, backed up by support, hurls a bomb or grenade towards German reinforcements. Date: 1915
Bruce Bairnsfather, The Professional Instinct AgainCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, The Professional Instinct Again, published in The Bystander, 1916. A juggler in civilian life practises with hand grenades. Date: 1916
CANO, Alonso (1601-1667). Spanish painter, architect and sculptor. Engraving
MARIN GARES, Isidoro. Dame with UmbrellaMARIN GARES, Isidoro (1863-1926). Dame with Umbrella. end 19th-beg. 20th c. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Museums of Fine Arts of Granada
With British Bombers on the Western FrontBombing along an enemy trench with the Mills grenade. The bomb throwers throw grenades across the traverse of the trench as indicated allowing the riflemen to charge ahead
German soldiers ready to through hand grenadeGerman soldiers looking through loopholes behind their trenches, waiting for the right moment to through their hand-grenades. Date: 1917
Bronze figure of an Italian bomber wearing Farina helmeBronze figure of an Italian bomber wearing a Farina helmet with the Lippmann Paraguance (metal sheets for the ears) throwing a disc-shaped grenade. Italian School
A German soldier trying to escape a French grenade before it explodes. Andr頄 evambez (1867-1943)
The Push The Rifle Grenade Stunt - German Field PostcardThe Push. The Rifle Grenade Stunt. Drawn on a German Field Postcard (Feldpostkarte). 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
