A good way to send fuckers to the afterlife comprised of the solution known as the “jam-tin” double-cylinder grenade which was fashioned from two sizes of empty tins (cans) readily available at the front-- sometimes literally the tin containing the soldier's ration of jam.
Gun-cotton or dynamite was placed in the smaller tin, which was placed inside the larger tin. Then pieces of metal, acting as shrapnel, were placed in the larger tin around the smaller. A fuse, with a burn rate of about 1.25 seconds per inch, was inserted through the lid of the outer can which was then sealed.
When used, the fuse would be lit, perhaps by cigarette, and the jam-tin thrown, exploding whenever the fuse reached the explosive.
British armament companies, meanwhile, were feverishly working on real grenades, but the jam-tin filled the gap until they appeared at the front. It wasn't until May 1915, that the British introduced the Mills bomb, one of the best grenades of the war and would remain in service into the 1980s. #improvise #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #gangbang #ww1