HAND GRENADES

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

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]