Ww1 Relics

Tis not a rusty relic, its a piece of history from time before, carried by men of steel into the storm of war, lying in the ground for a hundred years.
Lest We Forget.

Hi guys sorry for the amount of absence but I am back ! Here is my French Adrian helmet. Sadly this one is missing the front badge but has everything else. It is quite dented which may be battle damage or damage from the ground as it was only found in 2015 ! The liner is in pretty good condition and even has markings present. The remanence of the French army blue can be seen on the inside of the helmet. It also has the chinstrap where the soldier left it .

To commemorate D-Day I have some pictures of letters that my great grandfather sent back to his wife during the invasion. He describes how they only get one bath a week and how bad the food was. He was in the Royal Engineers and was tasked with defusing all the bombs and mines that the Germans left behind. He also says in his letters that he was tasked with driving a small tracked vehicle to do some concreting. He also states that he had to begin rifle drill as the enemy were so close. The fourth slide is my great grandfather being rather rude haha (“pulling big boy”)

Here we have a very uncommon British First World War Hand gr***de. The No22 Newtons Pippin Gr***de. This gr***de was invented by Captain Henry Newton who produced them at the Second Army’s Workshops at Armentieres in June 1915. He first came up with the rifle gr***de version which was shaped like a carrot, so it would easily stick into the ground, but there was this hand version made. To use, the cap was struck on a hard surface firing the primer of the case and igniting the safety fuze which gave about 5 secs delay. About 80,000 were produced at Armentieres and they are now very rare. The body casing is painted black but there are no markings. They were produced during 1915 before the Mills bomb became widely available to the Army in France. @ Armentières, France

Here we have a very uncommon British First World War Hand gr***de. The No22 Newtons Pippin Gr***de. This gr***de was invented by Captain Henry Newton who produced them at the Second Army’s Workshops at Armentieres in June 1915. He first came up with the rifle gr***de version which was shaped like a carrot, so it would easily stick into the ground, but there was this hand version made. To use, the cap was struck on a hard surface firing the primer of the case and igniting the safety fuze which gave about 5 secs delay. About 80,000 were produced at Armentieres and they are now very rare. The body casing is painted black but there are no markings. They were produced during 1915 before the Mills bomb became widely available to the Army in France.

Here is my MK V11 gas mask. It has various dated parts as they had to be replaced due to ware during the war. The majority of the dates are 1937. It also has the original bag which is named !

Another giveaway ! Enter before it’s too late 😱

Here are some relics I got from around the hawthorn ridge crater. We have a large piece of shrapnel that I actually collected whilst on a school trip there last year, the bottoms of a British shrapnel shell with remains of the main ‘rod’, some shrapnel pellets and a German water bottle.

For sale !!! 1917 dated French barbed wire cutters. They are the 1915 pattern and they have all the makers marks. These were found in the Somme.