Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton
Item
Title
Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton
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Identifier
9487.cpd
Creator
Rafton, Robert
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Abstract
A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
Date
October 26th 1915
Date Created
1915-10-26
Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Type
Diary
number of pages
45
Contributor
Meriel Patrick
Alun Edwards (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
Mrs Catherine Bird
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford