What is this please?

I found this recently whilst scouting around the site where a P38 Lightning crashed during WW2. It was on an operational flight, so would not expect it to be practice material even though I named the file that way.




It is in remarkably good condition, and feels very light.
The book in the pouch marked VALID is Passport size.




Nearby is a short belt of live 50cal, a bit weatherbeaten but live and would probably cleanup.

Would appreciate help to know what it is.

Peter wrote:

It looks more like a mortar round. Did the shaft have holes in it?

No holes, just a hollow shaft.

It's not an aircraft practice bomb. Certainly looks like a mortar bomb yet lacks certain features. I think that it may be a spigot launched marine signal. Odd that the nose cap should be painted red just like the movies.

netcompsys sounds a timely warning in his post (#4) Such finds should not be disturbed but marked and reported to the police. In particular explosive mortar bombs which have failed to detonate are liable to function if moved due to the fuze design.

I shall see what I can find.

I should have identified this objec straight away on sight, perhaps old age dims the brain cells.

It's a No 94 Anti-tank Rifle Grenade commonly referred to as an ENERGA grenade. This was fired from a special attachment on the muzzle of a standard service rifle (No 4 Rifle) using a special blank cartridge.

This is probably a Drill (Inert non-ex) grenade which would have been painted white with the word 'DRILL' stencilled on the side. It appears to have been repainted at some stage in non-standard colours to confuse the unwary

EDIT:

Diagram

Until the invention of Chobam armour tanks were still vulnerable, in fact the undersides still are.

Now how did this grenade end up where it did??

canberra wrote:

Until the invention of Chobam armour tanks were still vulnerable, in fact the undersides still are.

Now how did this grenade end up where it did??

It ended up in a wood, on a large farming estate. It is not a stray from a known range, so most likely someone just dumped it there.

Anyone familiar with 58 pattern webbing? You may recall that one ammo pouch had a pocket on the outside with a fastening on the top, that was for the energa grenade.