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                             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

                          COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
                           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 GRE