The Royal Navy EOD Team confirmed the device was a World War Two mills bomb - a pineapple-shaped hand grenade. It said the device was taken to Devonport in Plymouth where it was made safe.
A SECOND World War Burma Star veteran, will be getting a special surprise when he reaches his 100th birthday on December 3. At Dunkirk Memorial House near Taunton, the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of ...
Interviewed late in life by “Ginge” Fullen, chronicler of the Royal Navy’s clearance diving branch, he recalled: “The small shells and mortars were easy to clear, but there was some very ...