An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli by Ellis Silas
Author:Ellis Silas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing
Published: 2011-12-13T00:00:00+00:00
Anzac, May, 1915.
In his description Silas refers to shrapnel bursting and he indicates it by the cloudlike puffs of smoke. A shrapnel shell contained thousands of steel or lead balls, the size of marbles. An explosive charge in the base of the shell forced out the shrapnel which sprayed down with great velocity on the infantry below. Steel helmets had not yet been developed and many soldiers were killed by shrapnel balls in the brain. A high explosive shell did not contain shrapnel but, generally on impact, broke into great shards or splinters which caused fearful wounds.
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