wandering the battlefields

I have found some documentation concerning this tipe of fuze and markings, also for other types of ammo, here:
http://humanbonb.free.fr/indexFuseedobus.html

LWM - comes from : leichte wurfmine (light mortar shell)
Z.dr 2 - comes from: zunder (fuze) for 76mm shell

This post has been edited by ANDI on August 21, 2007 01:14 pm

Hello there, a friend of mine has found a bullet, he found it his garden, in Ploiesti. Any ideeas what could it be?

It could be a little "souvenir" from Tidal wave

Old subject but I think I found a interesting detail regarding this rifle barrel, it's from a Mannlicher M95 Short Rifle (not carbine) but the fact that somebody cut 30cm off a 100cm rifle makes you wander what was the use of such a small rifle as with a 20cm barrel it was a very close range hand gun.

See here in the bottom of the page: http://www.sunblest.net/gun/Mann95.htm

You might be right and I am more than sure that this "operation" took place after the war and it was made by the locals who wandered this battleplaces looking for "leftovers".
Many of them actually helped the army, during the war, to carry ammo and rifle crates to hide-outs (forgotten places by now..) and many of these areas were shepherds areas before and after the war, so it makes sence.
I reckon these remote places were littered with war relics,even long after the war.

Well, I was on the leave for a few weeks so I took the opportunity to visit some other ww1 battlefields.
I have encountered a local squirmish area, near the road, on Topolog valley, Arges county. These places have seen some heavy fightings in the autumn of 1916, between Mosoiu-Cihoski brigades (romanian 23rd infantry division) and the advancing austro-hungarian, 2nd mountain brigade.

Some mixed spent cartridges and empty clips, romanian and austro-hungarian. I think this place was the scene of some heavy close range fightings...

I reckon this is another type of a diaphragm from a shrapnell shell. It was 63mm in diameter.

Again some spent cartridges. Among them, an old m78 Henry-Martini cartridge, from the militia troops.





This post has been edited by ANDI on August 26, 2007 03:45 pm

Some romanian and austro-hungarian live cartridges.

Old barbed wire, "caught" by the growing trees...time had passed....

A french F1 model 1915 hand grenade, live and deadly...left untouched.

Meters away, one brass cover for the short type percussion fuze from a F1 french grenade. It was 30mm long and 15mm in diameter.



Info and pictures from here:
http://images.google.ro/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Dro%26sa%3DN

And a lonely steel case - AKM ammo ...very corroded.

What did you did about the live handgrenade?
Did you alerted the authorities? Because other people, not being aware about the danger, could posibly detonate it...

What did you did about the live handgrenade?
Did you alerted the authorities? Because other people, not being aware about the danger, could posibly detonate it...

Of course I did. Especially becouse it was in the path of the shepherds...
I have also talked with locals and they said that unexploded ordonance like shells are quite often discovered but grenades are rarely and the region was "combed" a long time ago, in the '60es. Back then, they said that everything that was discovered safe or exploded (empty shrapnell shells, empty grenades, etc) was left on the spot...
That is how they remembered, hard to tell if it is the real thing though...