IR 169: Blog Ten, 23 February 2020: A Tank Graveyard; Juvincourt, 1917.
In our last post, IR 169, following a long ordeal in the Somme, was reconstituted while posted in the Altkirch lines from January – March, 1917. The regiment then received…
In our last post, IR 169, following a long ordeal in the Somme, was reconstituted while posted in the Altkirch lines from January – March, 1917. The regiment then received…
Today's post is on grenades. We will start at the beginning of the warwith some of the early hand grenades, and in a later post we will look atwhat they…