Original British WWII No 70 Mk 3 High Explosive Inert Grenade Dated 1944/5 - Very Rare Category_Martini-Henry Rifles Each came in a wooden

Each came in a wooden box

this is absolutely "top of the line"

only to be pushed back both times with heavy casualties from German machine gun fire

As a child IMA Director Christian Cranmer used to collect Golliwog Labels issued by the Company in the 1950's

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Original British WWII No 70 Mk 3 High Explosive Inert Grenade Dated 1944/5 - Very Rare Category_Martini-Henry Rifles Each came in a woodenOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent original inert example of an extremely hard to find British ordnance piece from WWII! An updating of the 1920s vintage No 54 grenade, the No 70 was introduced in 1944, for use in the China Burma India theater's Malayan jungle, due to safety issues with the No. 36 grenade. It was found that the No. 36 grenade frequently could not be thrown out of its own fragmentation radius, and that the fixed