Grenades and Bombs

Grenades and Bombs

British

B1 No 5 Mills Bomb Hand Grenade (1915 onwards)

B2 Battye Bomb Hand Grenade (1915 improvised grenade)

B3 Jam Tin Bomb (also known as a Ticklers Bomb - emergency hand grenade made out of discarded jam and food tins in 1915, often associated with the Gallipoli campaign)

B4 3 inch Stokes Mortar Bomb (late 1915 onwards, used in the 3 inch Stokes Mortar)

B5 No 27 Bomb Rifle Grenade

B6 No 36 Mills Bomb Hand Grenade (1917 onwards, used through the Second World War up until the 1970's)

B7 No 34 Egg Grenade (small bomb introduced in 1917, similar to the German Egg Grenade)