AMAZING TEST
RIFLE ATTACHMENTFIRES AN H.E, SHELL FORMERLY REJECTED (10 a.m.) SYDNEY. March 25. The inventors of a weapon rejected by the Army during .the war claim that it would have saved many Australian lives in New Guinea. The invention, which has just been removed from the secret list, is an attachment whereby a 20-millimetre high explosive shell can be fired from a standard LecEnfield Mark 111 service rifle. Designed by Sergeant John Wright and Corporal L. J. Campbell, botii of Sydney, the weapon was' ready for use in August. 1943. It was rejected by the Army in February, 1945, and placed on the secret list. When lie saw it demonstrated, MajorGeneral C. E. M. Lloyd said its use would have reduced the operations in New Guinea by a third and' the casualties to two-fifths.
At a test yesterday two shots were fired. One shattered a man-sized three-ply target at 200 yards and the other, aimed about 300 yards away from another target, riddled it with 42 shrapnel holes. The attachment would cost about 10s.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 3
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