No4 Battle damaged relic....

[bigduke6]

Forgot about this pic I took at Cole House Fort in Tilbury, not the best pic (was taken on the Mobile phone) but you can make out the damage, a round straight through the action,

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[jmoore]

More than a rifle bullet strike, methinks!

[bigduke6]

Jmoore,

Was looking for the other thread to post this but couldnt find it, if you want to put this direcly in were you put the link.

[jmoore]

I would if I knew how! Photos get huge when I try to move them by brute force.

[Son]

Forgot about this pic I took at Cole House Fort in Tilbury, not the best pic (was taken on the Mobile phone) but you can make out the damage, a round straight through the action,

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...DSC00060-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...DSC00059-1.jpg

Saw a very similar WW1 No1 a few years back in a traveling display for ANZAC day. It had been struck by a shell fragment. The note went on to say it was cocked and had nine rounds in the magazine. I asked if anyone had confirmed it wasn't loaded. Came back the next day with a camera to discover it had been removed- it had been loaded and was picked up by an explosive ord. disposal team....

I wonder if that one still has a round up the spout?

[browningautorifle]

So what eventually happened to it Son? Did they blow it as a blind? Or did it just "disappear"?

[Son]

So what eventually happened to it Son? Did they blow it as a blind? Or did it just "disappear"?

They said the Officer that picked it up was going to blow it up... not too many options I'm afraid.

[fergs]

They had special troops running around on the western front in ww1 picking up weaponry and equipment, and it wasnt unusaul for them to pick up weapons that were loaded and cocked which subsequently discharged, leaving either the member or others injured.
The canberra war memorial has a webbly cylinder that has rounds stuck in it where it had been slammed from the side and mis shapen jamming the spent rounds in. That cylinder was from the Laffin collection i think.
Regards
Fergs

[Peter Laidler]

It is a simple matter to drill into the side of a rifle chamber to inert a suspect live round that's jammed in. Just drill in through a stream of slow running water. We drilled one out through a blob of childs plastercine (a sort of play-do) in order that a Chemist friend of mine could centrifuge it, separate the steel drillings, brass case and propellant in order to analyse it for a student project.

Yep, the propellant was as volatile as the day it was made!

[browningautorifle]

That's sort of what I was thinking Peter. Why destroy something historic like that? It's just a matter of the autorities not having any imagination in these matters.