Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Hand Grenade - Inert British Awards Medals Badges Insignia Activated on 9 Feb 1942

Activated on 9 Feb 1942

The grenade and cartridge would be used with a Schießbecher (shooting cup) grenade launcher to direct the projectile

The throat nicely matches the crossguards and all four dome headed screws are still present

The interior is marked in two places:

mostly bright

Original British WWII British No 69 I Bakelite High Explosive Hand Grenade - Inert British Awards Medals Badges Insignia Activated on 9 Feb 1942Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice 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 contrast,