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it weighed 23 ounces and throwing it jerked the muscles of the arm severely. The All bombs went off a few seconds after we threw them. And we also fired them our of rifles when we couldn't throw them far enough.
Any decent bomb broke into over three hundred killing pieces which it scattered far and wide. And then there were Rifle Grenades - bombs on rods whch were shoved down the barrel of our rifles and fired with blank cartridges.
On Gallopili the home-made bombs were truly wonderous. Our Padre used to save his gramaphone needles for us as we found it difficult to find sufficient missiles with which to fill our jam tins. Broken rum jars and whisky bottles, stones and lolly-jars all went into our bombs here. If we had only had the Mills Bombs on Gallapoli there would never have been an evacuation.
It was at Bois Grenier that we first used Rifle Grenades, a stylish name for bombs fired from Rifles, and where we first began to see what nuisances a Bombing Officer (Lt. R. Henderson) and his platoon could be. He, his corporal and three bombers proud in their blue arm-bands came strolling