Suez the weapons seized

[Roy W]

And the odd mine or two Pete

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[Peter Laidler]

That reminds me...... An unwary member of the public could mistake a dustbin lid or manhole cover for such an anti-tank mine if it was half hidden on the beach. Remember that? We say no more!

[Roy W]

That reminds me...... An unwary member of the public could mistake a dustbin lid or manhole cover for such an anti-tank mine if it was half hidden on the beach. Remember that? We say no more!

I know the cop who stood next to it all night Pete, making sure it was safe for ridicule the following morning!

[villiers]

An acquaintance came back from a trip to the Baltc last summer ... in an ambulance. He went looking for amber, and picked up the lookalike remnants of a phosphor bomb. Tons were dumped by the Russians soon after WWII and bits are washed up on the beaches.

[Lee Enfield]

The Numbers 4 and 5 were there until the very end, which I believe was when the L1A1 was brought into to front line units in 54 ish and Australia in 59.
I am sure Peter/Tankie will be able to date the exact entry point for whichever unit

Ex1/Ex2 (FAL Canada) and X8E1/X8E2 (Br) FN-FAL trials rifles were ordered from FN in June (Ex1/Ex2) and December (X8E1/X8E2) 1953 respectively.

Deliveries (from FN) started in early 1954 (IIRC a few Ex1 rifles were recorded as having completed 5,000rds in firing trials in May1954).

The earliest production C1 rifles are dated 1956 (and likely shipped to units early in '57).

The earliest production L1 rifles are dated 1957.

[Sentryduty]

That sounds like a very, very bad experience. To clarify, this person was hunting for fossilized amber and accidentally picked up phosphorus?

If it were submerged under water and then brought to the surface, or buried and then uncovered it would make a for a very terrible injury.

[Flying10uk]

A few years ago an old boy who had been living in London during the Blitz told me about an incident involving what turned out to be an unexploded German Phosphorus bomb. The story goes that following a raid, in the middle of the road, was a large drum which he described as being about the size of a large round letter box or large oil drum which was smouldering and had a small part of an un-deployed parachute protruding from the end. No-one knew what this object was but people started trying to remove the parachute from the end of the drum, perhaps for a souvenir or maybe the ladies wanted the silk to recycle into a dress? Fortunately a local Air Raid warden arrived in the nick of time and stopped them from fully removing the parachute from the end of the drum. He then went on to inform every-one that the drum was in-fact an unexploded Phosphorus bomb which are set off by the full deployment of the parachute. Presumably this type of Phosphorus bomb were used to illuminate the target and so needed to stay in the air as long as possible hence the parachute.


Is any-one able to confirm that this is how the German phosphorus bombs used in WW2 on the U.K. worked, please?

[villiers]

It did! And couldn´t be washed off .....

[Mk VII]

Suez, 1956. (with an SU-100 in the background)



the Jeeps had to be bought back from the scrapyard, as it was belatedly discovered that the Austin Champ wouldn't fit underneath a Hastings transport.

[Gil Boyd]

2 PARA overloaded yet again and lost..................thats what happens when you give the map to the officer
When you see the rad leaning back like that, it shows the chasis taking some strain. They were certainly built to take some stick!