ID Please, what is this greande?

[pkm594]

Gents I was in my local museum the weekend and I was wondering what type of grenade is this and what nation used it. I am after as much detail as possible for a friends college project.

 

[pzgr40]

It's a thermite incendiary grenade. They were standard in the toolbox of an artillery piece. If the gun had to be abandoned, the bakelite cap of the grenade was screwed off, the .22 rimfire cartridge below the bakelite cap was knocked on a hard surface and the grenade was placed in the barrel. The heat of the burning thermite burned a hole in the barrel/chamber.
regards, DJH

 

[Bonnex]

View attachment DD(L)11082 Gren Hand Incendiary (1.25) Part 1.pdf

Bomb Incendiary 1 1/4 lb Mark I - British

Basically a commercial 'Brasso' tin filled with thermite topped off with a priming element. Fuze was of French origin and gave a 5-sec delay. Early 1940's design. Used as a 'destructor' by the Army (equipment denial) and I believe your photograph shows a version used by the RAF for aircraft destruction (was fitted with a clip-on spike for stabbing through aircraft skin). Dare I say it but they were also used by the SOE for a short time during a supply shortage of their own 2 1/2 lb incendiary.

Early designation was Grenade rather than Bomb.

 

[pkm594]

Thanks guys thats brilliant I will pass the info on incidentally this was in the Chester Military Museum.