Original French WWI 2nd Model Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade - Pétard de Destruction pour Barbelés Multi Nation Flags This pattern Tschako with Garde

This pattern Tschako with Garde star and oxide fittings was worn by the following units: Preußen Telegraphen (Telegraph) Batl

The serial number 21499 is fairly low

and he died in 1801

Service and Field - although this varied somewhat by uniform period

which look to have the single bar for a First Lieutenant

Original French WWI 2nd Model Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade - Pétard de Destruction pour Barbelés Multi Nation Flags This pattern Tschako with GardeOriginal Item: Only One Available. A very scarce WWI Hand Grenade, offered in Inert, BATF compliant, condition, and the first of which we have ever offered. Previously we had an example of the smaller 1st model, but this is the larger 2nd model French WWI Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade, known in French as the Ptard de Destruction pour Barbels. These were made with the intention of clearing gaps in enemy barbed wire entanglements. The explosive rod