Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Inert Hand Grenade - dated 1942 P-1853 Enfield The installed cylinder is marked

The installed cylinder is marked with assembly number 79

the French government blamed their loss on the Chassepot rifle's poor reliability on the battlefield

There are a lot of small nicks on both edges

and could detect ir-flashlight signals up to 1 mile

Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Inert Hand Grenade - dated 1942 P-1853 Enfield The installed cylinder is markedOriginal 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