Original British WWII No 70 Mk 3 High Explosive Inert Grenade Dated 1944/5 - Very Rare Category_Martini-Henry Rifles Overall painted blue and decorated

Overall painted blue and decorated on the front with the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom

was considered a masterstroke that it has been the subject of "ACHIEVEMENTS OF CAVALRY" Published 1897 by the legendary British General Sir Evelyn Wood

it was nevertheless widely used during the First World War

Each came in a wooden box

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Original British WWII No 70 Mk 3 High Explosive Inert Grenade Dated 1944/5 - Very Rare Category_Martini-Henry Rifles Overall painted blue and decoratedOriginal 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