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Need help identifying the following handgrenades

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tikiman

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Hope somebody can help identify these handgrendades?<br><br>Thanks
 

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Pictures 3 and 4 show a british No 36 Mills

I'm sure there are members that will help out with the others

regards Kev
 
First is a french WW1 Citros Foug, second is a 36 mills, British, and the third looks like an early American Mk2 with full yellow HE paint and botton filler screw. it looks like the Mills is a JPS (joseph parks and sons).
 
Don't know much about the first two grenades, but the 5th and 6th pictures look to be closer to the French F-1 body. Recently had a job where we ran across a lot of them in addition to the US Mk I and Mk II bodies for comparison. Cheers, Bruce.
 
bacarnal said:
Don't know much about the first two grenades, but the 5th and 6th pictures look to be closer to the French F-1 body. Recently had a job where we ran across a lot of them in addition to the US Mk I and Mk II bodies for comparison. Cheers, Bruce.
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I think you are right about the French F-1 body. Thanks Bruce
 
Pic 1 and 2 Citroen Foug French WW1 gren, Pic 3 and 4 Mills 36M with ww2 era filler plug, Pic 5 and 6 appear to be same, id go for French F1, but could also be Russian or USA.

EDIT- Apologies, thought I was 1st to reply!.
 
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Yep. I canged my mind now. I think they are F1 bodies. Must have been drunk when I looked at the pics first
 
Oddly enough, the area that I mentioned in my reply is in the US and all of the grenade bodies that we found fuzed had the US Mk II cutback, including the F-1's. Cheers, Bruce.
 
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Oddly enough, the area that I mentioned in my reply is in the US and all of the grenade bodies that we found fuzed had the US Mk II cutback, including the F-1's. Cheers, Bruce.
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Bruce,

Where was that? Quite a bit of testing was done on those items in 1917-1918 and I'd be interested to see if it was related to there.

Mike
 
Dave, probably just coincidence that a No.36 and a Citron Foug share the initials PF.

Assuming they represent the maker's initials on the No.36, then there's a reasonable probability of it being The Park Foundry Co, Belper, Derbyshire. PF produced 100,000 No.36 between July and September 1940, but I wasn't aware until now that they were a WWI Mills manufacturer. However, they were a pre-WWI iron foundry, so perhaps not unreasonable that they should make Mills' bodies, if not all the other components.




Tom.
 
On closer inspection Tom i will agree with you its more than likely WW2, i got this example from South Africa many years ago in the hope it was made there,,,,,,,,, Dave
 
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