French grenade Battye

[MINENAZ16]

Hello,

For sure, French used a kind of hand grenade "Battye" (it is said that grenade Battye was made in Bethune, in the North of France).

Regards

 

[MINENAZ16]

As we recently talked about French Mills on this forum, I bump this thread about French-made grenades Battye.

We found these in French 1915 trench with lot of early (old and strange improvised) french hand grenades

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[Snufkin]

We found these in French 1915 trench with lot of early (old and strange improvised) french hand grenades

Do you have photos of the other improvised grenades that were found? Thanks.




Tom.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Lot of grenades in very bad conditions stuck together like fossils, old balls model 1847, balls model 1914, Battyes, Besozzi, and improvised "petards raquettes" (only remnants of wood and sheet metal with explosive visible). Sorry, confidential EOD pictures with explosive.