Full text: Diary of service on the Western Front, 1914-1915, World War One (volume)

missile owing to the difficulty of lighting the fuse and it detonates very quickly. I think this form of bomb would be very useful to throw at attackers, or from a house during street fighting; if thrown from the trench you have to expose yourself a little in order to get any impetus, and even then it is difficult to throw it more than 30 yards. The hand grenade is also difficult to throw any distance from a trench and it has to be swung several times round the head. At night one could get out of the trench & throw it under [pencil note: Drawing]
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