bayonet / Volunteer Council competition, 1914
bayonet / Volunteer Council competition, 1914
bayonet / Volunteer Council competition, 1914
A home-made weapon, similar to a bayonet, made by the donor James Gough in December 1914. The Volunteer Council in Dublin organised a competition scheme and issued orders that those Volunteers who could do so were to make weapons for self-defence. The donor writes that this weapon "could be used on a shovel handle or long rake handle of about 7 ft. in length and would be a nice weapon to oppose a man with a heavy rifle and bayonet.";
Volunteer Council competition, 1914
Object Number:
HE:EW.259
Institution:
NMI
Date:
1914
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Place of production:
Ireland
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