Thanks! Sorry about the shakey start, it's been a hell of a week. I booked some time off work to practice, instead I ended up in hospital for...
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?search/7288960/&q=blacker+bombard+spigot+mortar&o=relevance Hours of reading here Dave - find a nice restful spot...
This is a Blacker Bombard Spigot Mortar on a concrete mounting. Blacker Bombard - Wikipedia This link has the same photo labeled: Home Guard...
Note: I cleared this with von Poop before posting, and he said it was Ok. As some of you may know I write books. Well, coming out late may next...
Jogging memories, now, am I ? 2 more of Rowe's failings: Fig. 66 caption as posted by Jim - "demonstrating" (implying Winnie teaching brickie...
[ATTACH] Blacker Bombard,Shropshire Blacker Bombard (Spigot Mortar) site, Ludlow, Shropshire
So you want pretty pictures, eh? Well OK then - the last paragraph of 2.6.4 on p109 states, "the Spigot Mortar was a fixed permanent defensive...
Blacker Bombard (Spigot Mortar) site, Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
My next book is on all the lovely spigot weapons the UK and other nations used. So to answer some questions: It was bloody effective, and range...
This Spigot is still in place at in a garden overlooking Dinham bridge Blacker Bombard (Spigot Mortar) site, Ludlow, Shropshire
Just some minor expansions on the above post Stop line no 28 was intended to prevent outflanking of the Severn Stop line Calling it the...
MD1 began in "Military Intelligence Research" (MIR). MIR was a department of the War Office set up in 1939 under Lt-Col Joe Holland RE. Holland...
From the documentation submitted for listing History Following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940, Britain’s...
Situated in a private garden above the banks of the river Teme with a view looking to cover the Dinham Bridge crossing....
Blacker Bombard ,Spigot Mortar site,Old Amersham,Buckinghamshire...
It fired two types of projectile, anti personnel with a range of half a mile and anti tank with a range of 70-100 yds. Don't know how effective it...
Today, I learned that the Spigot Mortar's (the original Blacker Bombard, not the Petard) anti-tank round was essentially HESH not HEAT. HESH's...
...Rifle, Sten Gun, 2-pounder anti-tank gun and Blacker Bombard spigot mortar - all deny whatever negative press is being passed among the ranks....
I'm currently researching a member of the Home Guard who was tragically killed in November 1941 by a Spigot Mortar. What I would like to try and...
Hi, offhand, HWM = High Water Mark BS = Boundary Stone? - any nearby? Octagonal block: I can't quite get the scale but it reminds me of a 29mm...
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