Describes the 1.25lb incendiary bomb.

Describes a very early training grenade.

Describes one of the early individual grenades inspired by a Captain Battye.

An anti-tank grenade that appeared just as the anti-tank missile was coming on the scene.

Describes one of the grenades in the series related to the great No. 36M.

Describes the grenade No. 92.

Better known as the "Sticky bomb" this must have been a hair raising grenade to use.

A late model hand grenade developed but never adopted, it was designed by a Mr. Humphries of Woolwich Arsenal.

Developed by Royal Laboratories with improvements resulting from the experiences of British observers to the Russo/Japanese war of 1904/05.

Describes the last of the so called "Emergency grenades".

This little beauty is another of those grenades the British came up with when they were getting ready for an invasion.

These two were known as "Emergency" grenades

Describes a grenade of mixed parentage as it was used also as a bomb by the then Royal Flying Corps.

This is another emergency type grenade issued as a temporary measure when supplies ran short.

Describes anothe emergency type grenade.

Describes the grenade known as the "hairbrush" or "Box".

Describes a spherical grenade in the emergency series.

Describes the percussion pattern grenade developed by the Trench Warfare Dept.

Describes the chemical grenade used by the British for clearing bunkers in trench raids

This is another of those horrid things that desperater people come up with in desperate times.

This grenade harks back to the early siege warfare as it is a chemical type in the old egg shape.

This item could be used both as an instructional or an offensive grenade. It wouldn't look out of place in the siege of Constantinople.

Another ancient looking grenade of the egg shape.

This was designed as an instructional grenade and it was made of paper to reduce the hazards in using it.

This was designed to meet the requirements of troops fighting in the far east. They wanted a grenade that was capable of wounding at 10 metres but safe at 20 metres.

This thing is more like a demolition charge than a grenade.

This is one of those smoke grenade that can be used as an anti-personnel weapon as it is filled with White Phosphorus.

This item was an attempt at combining WP and HCE smoke to achieve a balanced smoke emission. It didn't work as well as intended.

Known as the "Gammon" after its inventor this is one of those grenades that required the user to get close to the tank. Always a very risky business.

One of the great smoke grenades. It was developed during WW2 and was still serving in the late 1980s.

Another nasty WP grenade that could be fired from a rifle or hand projected.

This is similar to the No 27 that it superseded.

This item was developed after WWI and was a percussion type, which was never popular with the troops because of the danger from percussion grenade when they were armed and it was also too small to be effective.

Developed for use by Naval and airborne forces where the use of WP was inappropriate.

this was originally designed as a smoke screen grenade for use by Royal armoured Corps tanks.

This was designed as a blast grenade for use as an offensive weapon. Several soldiers became casualties from this grenade in training situations because the lead ball was found to have a great lethal radius all of its own.

Originally conceived by the Naval wing of the RFC as a balloon buster but they were soon superseded by the incendiary bullets coming onto the scene.

This is the first of the great hand grenade family that led to the No. 36M. Well known as the "Mills" bomb.

This was a naval service grenade similar to the No. 63.

This was a rifle grenade that could be converted to an aerial bomb by the addition of a set of tail fins.

This was another of the long line of rodded rifle grenades much used by the British in the trench warfare of WWI.

These two are grouped because they are the same grenade with the excepion that one is designed for night use and the other for day use.

This is an improved No. 24 grenade.

This was known as the "Steuart" grenade and was an improved No.35. The improvement was to the striker mechanism so that it would function more reliably on soft ground.

The origins of this grenade are somewhat obscure as its antecedents are variously the Hales "J" pattern grenade, the Brazilian 7mm grenade and other bits thrown in by Woolwich Arsenal.

This was a variation of the No. 3 grenade.

This was developed and offered by a Mr. Sangster but despite performing well in trials it was never adopted.

This was a night signal similar to the No. 32.

This was similar to the No. 31 grenade.

This was developed by the Royal Engineers Experimental section in response to suggestions from the Tank Corps.

This grenade introduced the hollow charge principle to munitions for the first time.

This was a direct copy of the American M9A1 anti-tank rifle grenade.

Another of the despised percussion type grenades that was never adopted coming along as it did near the end of the war.

This was actually a shortened No. 80 smoke grenade fitted with an aluminium adaptor in place of the striker mechanism.

This grenade was developed for naval service.

This was designed especially for projecting from the West spring gun. The idea being that if you could launch a grenade without the sound of a firing device you might just surprise the enemy. The idea didn't last long as all the spring guns were orde...

A very brief look at some of the improvised grenade concocted in the trenches.

Commonly known as the "Hawkins" this is another grenade that looks more like a demolition charge than a grenade.

This item came along after reports from the British observers to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 described how effective the hand grenade was in actual combat.

A training grenade filled with an irritant composition.

This was an adapter to convert the grenade to an aerial bomb.