British newspaper The Mail on Sunday reported this week that on 7 April 2012 a toddler on an Easter-egg-hunt found a live grenade, similar to the one pictured above. The event took place at Holford, Somerset. Stuart Moffat and his wife Victoria were two of the parents who were supervising the 25 or so children. When a 3-year-old was noticed standing on what the lad thought was a rock, Stuart correctly identified it as neither rock nor egg, but an old-
fashioned pineapple grenade.
They were common in World War II and sometimes went by the name of ‘Mills bombs’, as they were manufactured by the Mills Munition Factory in Birmingham. The offending grenade was subsequently removed by the bomb squad and safely done away with.
Well done Stuart. I imagine your wife was ‘not amused.’