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Taken from "Mission Scapula"
One night while I was on duty, Freeth, one of our boffins came in and said "I've an idea that I would like to try" and with this remark we set about doing it. We first obtained several rounds of 303 ammunition. I placed the cartridge, with the brass end in a vice, then with a pair of pliers gently removed the lead bullet end, and emptied the explosive into a box. In the meantime Major Freeth set about placing number 27 detonator into the end of the brass cartridge, having first cut off with a hacksaw about half an inch of the detonator. |
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This he then placed into the brass cartridge with the open
end facing towards the 22 Firing cap in the cartridge.
I then fitted the lead bullet back into the case pushing it up to the detonator. The two parts were then reassembled together as if it were a normal cartridge After we had made several of these, the following morning we loaded a rifle up with one of the cartridges, placed it on a rifle stand, attached a piece of string to the trigger and from a distance pulled it. "Bang" the rifle shattered into several pieces. The idea was to place these modified bullets in amongst your enemy’s rounds in the vain hope that they would use them There were many different devices made at Aston and most went into production, but some exceeded their expectations. Like the Strip mine that nearly killed Winston Churchill while it was being demonstrated.
These are audio links to my father speaking about his training
methods, apologies for the poor quality
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