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keeping it for a mascot.
The bombs are pretty powerful; they burst into it is said, 208 pieces (of steel & iron) which will inflict a nasty wound up to about 200 yds. They are very handy to have in a charge.
While on the subject there is a chap in our battalion, back here from the front, who captured a fireman who reviled him and called him every sort of thing, so he pulle telling him also that he had a wife and seven kiddies so the Ausy took a grenade (Mills No 5 out of his pocket, took the safety pin out and dropped it into the German's pocket, telling him to split it up with his wife & kids, before running off. Of course that was the last of Fritz. The truth of the yarn is not vouched for.
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