Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Japanese Holsters including Operations Birmingham El Paso

including Operations Birmingham El Paso and Shenandoah

There is also assembly number 937 marked on the loading gate

then 1st Lt

They are retained by circlips on the rear

Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Japanese Holsters including Operations Birmingham El PasoOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a rare example of the WWI Italian Benaglia rifle grenade, actually a rod grenade. The rod grenade was patented by an Englishman named Frederick Marten Hale, an employee of the Cotton Powder Company at Faversham in Kent, in November 1909. Unfortunately, in practice, the rod grenade turned out to be an impractical weapon of dubious accuracy that caused stress on the rifle barrel, and which soon necessitated