Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Inert Hand Grenade - dated 1940 Garand & U.S. Rifles I served on an oilier

I served on an oilier (underway replenishment tanker) and even though I was a Radarman I was a trained firefighter due to the danger of sailing around sitting on 5 million plus gallons of flammable liquid

and it has serial number 4123 / a above the trigger guard

and tired Doughboys went to bed

Many were made according to the 1937 specification

LORD on the lock plate

Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Inert Hand Grenade - dated 1940 Garand & U.S. Rifles I served on an oilierOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent original inert example of a very hard to find British ordnance piece from WWII! 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