GRENADE “TENT PEG.”
CHILDREN ABOUT TO STRIKE IT WITH MALLET. Children in camp at Primrose Valley, Filey, Yorkshire, in August, had a narrow escape when they were about to use an army rifle grenade as a tentpeg. , . While playing near where army trenches were during the war they found the grenade and carried it back to the tents. One of the tents, occupied by Mr G. Thompson, of Attercliffe, Sheffield, and his family, had a tentpeg missing, and Mr Thompson’s seven-year-old son and other children decided to use the grenade as a peg. They put the narrow part into the soil, and were about to strike the end containing the detonator with a mallet to drive it farther in when Air Thompson saw what was happening. He was just in time to prevent the grenade being struck.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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137GRENADE “TENT PEG.” Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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