Original Rare French WWI & WWII Viven-Bessière Rifle Fragmentation Grenade - Inert Military Maps This use to be an

This use to be an Austrian Army line musket of the Lorenz style

Kepi retains internal rather worn hatband in cloth-simulated leather

the Division forged the steel ring around the Germans in Normandy by advancing to the edge of the city of Argentan on 12 August-8 days before the Argentan-Falaise Gap was closed

On the rear between these rosettes there is a leather "pillow" to protect the carrier's knuckles against the very hard hide shield

Late-war tags without blood-type letters on them may have belonged to soldiers who were not yet assigned to a front-line unit or they may have been souvenired from stocks of unissued tags

Original Rare French WWI & WWII Viven-Bessière Rifle Fragmentation Grenade - Inert Military Maps This use to be anOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Viven Bessires rifle grenade was an infantry weapon in use with the French Army from 1916 onwards. Also known as the "VB" grenade, it was named after its inventors, and officially referred to as the "Viven Bessires shell" in the French Army instruction manual. The grenade launcher system consists of two elements, the discharger (Launcher) and the projectile (grenade). Appearing in 1916, the VB grenade was the