BOVS FIND IN DUMP
Mortar Bomb At Table (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Feb. 18. Eight-year-old Reg Chilcott took a bomb home today. He threw it off a truck on to the concrete outside his home in East Hawthorne suburbs. Then he took it inside, banged it down on the kitchen table while the family was having breakfast, and said:
“Have a look at the bomb mum.”
An hour later, Major W. R. Kimber, an ammunition officer. inspected the bomb and said it was a high explosive 3-inch mortar —probably live.
He said the safety pin had been pulled out and a hard hit could have armed ths fuse and set the detonator off.
Major Kimber said this type of bomb would blow shrapnel 900 yards. He took the bomb to Mangalore ammunition dump. Reg found the bomb in rubbish and scrap metal dumped outside homes in Hawthorn.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30369, 19 February 1964, Page 17
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