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Shrapnel wounds were caused by shards of ripped metal, fragments of exploded bombs. Where a bullet bored through a body, shrapnel smashed and tore, often driving filthy fragments of clothing deep into a wound, meaning that infection was almost certain. Treatment of wounds was dependent on the level of injury, minor wounds were dealt with closer ...
There was some use of shrapnel by the British in the campaigns in East and North East Africa at the beginning of the war, where 18-pdr and 4.5-in (114 mm) howitzers were used. By World War II shrapnel shells, in the strict sense of the word, fell out of use, the last recorded use of shrapnel being 60 pdr shells fired in Burma in 1943.
Shrapnel shells were used as weapons in the war. A hollow shell filled with tiny metal balls would explode mid-air and wound many soldiers on the Western Front.
Apr 19, 2018 · At the start of World War I, the central role played by shrapnel-firing field guns in the opening battles suggested that, if anything, shrapnel shell advocates had understated their case. From Tannenberg in the east to the Marne in the west, shrapnel (rather than bolt-action rifles or machine guns) inflicted the lion’s share of casualties, paralyzed forward movement, and induced whole armies ...
Jun 21, 2016 · The Battle of Somme is – rightly or wrongly – a byword for military folly, a baptism of blood for the earnest volunteers of Kitchener’s New Army that saw entire villages and workplaces wiped out by shell, shot and chlorine gas. Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care, which opens 28 June and runs until January 2018 at the Science Museum in ...
Shrapnel. Each side's big guns, firing from some distance behind the front line, would lob shells over their own soldiers to explode in enemy lines. This caused indiscriminate death and injury as the resulting shrapnel — jagged pieces of metal — scythed through the troops. George Ramage describes such an attack in a diary entry for 1 June 1915:
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Although shrapnel was used to cut down enemy barbed wire it was generally regarded as unsatisfactory for the task. The wide deployment of shrapnel as a weapon during the First World War mandated that the light cloth caps as worn by infantrymen in 1914 be replaced by steel helmets which afforded at least some protection against the rain of steel ...
