In the four days after their arrival on March 24, they allegedly wounded two people in a machine-gun attack on a minibus near the Nahoon Dam/Mdantsane junction, fired a dud rifle-grenade at the Highgate Hotel, and fired on the Da Gama staff bus containing 22 passengers. ❋ Unknown (1995)
London road, a rifle-grenade attack on the Highgate Hotel, and an attack on a Da Gama Textiles bus transporting employees. ❋ Unknown (1995)
They also fired a rifle-grenade which failed to explode at the Highgate Hotel while a packed discotequDa Gama ❋ Unknown (1995)
Mr Dumisani Ncamazana, 19, and Mr Zukile Augustin Mbambo, 25, are charged with a machine-gun attack on a car near Berlin, a failed rifle-grenade attack on the Highgate Hotel in East London and an attack on a Da Gama Textiles staff bus, all in March last year. ❋ Unknown (1995)
"Jabu", had been positively linked with a rifle-grenade, rifle and petrol-bomb attack atthe home of Mrs Cornelia Roos in ❋ Unknown (1993)
During the tour in Wieltje the Battalion dug Hopkin's Trench in no man's land, under machine gun, granatenwerfer and rifle-grenade fire, which were the cause of several casualties. ❋ Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts (N/A)
From time to time the Fascists let fly at us with a rifle-grenade or some similar weapon. ❋ Unknown (1938)
Also Lieut. Odell brought his signal company of twenty-nine men one evening to be shown the working of the rifle-grenade, as it was thought that the rifle-grenade (empty) might be used as a message carrier. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
My own job was now to train as many infantry men as possible in the use of the rifle-grenade. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
A Hales rifle-grenade used to cost 25s. and it came down to 15s. a little later, but once fired as a dummy it was not much use to fire again. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
No risks were taken with the Newton rifle-grenade; during firing all men had to be behind a barricade and the rifle was fired off with a string and held in position by an iron stand. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
I had not only to teach them to fire the rifle-grenade themselves, of which they knew nothing, but to teach them to hand their knowledge on to others. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
The recruit training was now practically over and these days were given to showing the handling of a rifle-grenade section in open warfare. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
Hitherto only the most expert and steadiest bombers had been employed on rifle-grenade work. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
But we used to think the Hales rifle-grenade quite safe, so that men were trained to fire off these grenades holding the rifle to the ground in the kneeling position. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
The 'fishtail' was a small trench-mortar bomb, which the Germans substituted for the rifle-grenade and used with great effect. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
I was lucky to have no accident with the Mills grenade, and no fatal ones even with the rifle-grenade. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
Toon were both badly injured and an N.C.O. killed in the trenches by a Mills rifle-grenade, which, through a defective cartridge, fell out of the rifle and burst in the trench. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
It is hard to realise the complete inadequacy of this arrangement, without knowing something of the rifle-grenade, and without knowing the extraordinary difficulty of training a man to become an instructor of others. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
From June 20 to 23 I continued the rifle-grenade training. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
