HAND GRENADES
Reading edition
A HANDBOOK ON RIFLE AND HAND GRENADES
COMPILED AND ILLUSTRATED BY
Major GRAHAM M. AINSLIE
FIRST EDITION
NEW YORK
JOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc.
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited 1917
Copyright, 1917, by
GRAHAM M. AINSLIE
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
PREFACE
The purpose of this work is to assist students of grenade work in acquiring a rapid and complete knowledge of the subject. If the student will refer constantly to the illustrations, which are accurate drawings of grenades now in use, this book may help to elucidate many points which are inadequately treated in any existing work.
In compiling the book, the author has inserted only information absolutely necessary, and has arranged it so simply that a person with a very little previous knowledge of the subject may be able to grasp both the data given, and the principles, and methods herein explained and illustrated.
This book is the result of practical experience in the present war.
G. M. Ainslie.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
Hand and Rifle Grenades 2
Grenade Establishment 26
Grenade Squad 28
Clearing a Trench from a Flank 29
Frontal Attack 32
Trench Storming Parties 36
Foreign Grenades. French 38
Foreign Grenades. German 42
Explosives used in Grenades 51
Fuses, Detonators, etc. 55
Throwing 59