qsy-complains-a-lot: Sauce: Douglas2496 on WarRelics.EUWW1 Cosh or BlackjackManufactured for Cpt Ham
qsy-complains-a-lot: Sauce: Douglas2496 on WarRelics.EUWW1 Cosh or BlackjackManufactured for Cpt Hambley of the York and Lancaster infantry regiment, possibly before the war started.Spring steel handle, lead head, sewn into a leather cover with a lanyard strap. “The Bowie knife was a favourite German weapon because of its silence, but we inclined to a cosh. The most important information a patrol could bring back was to what Regiment and division the troops opposite belonged. If it were impossible to get a wounded enemy back without danger to oneself, he had to be stripped of his badges. To do that silently, it might be necessary to first bash in his skull.” – Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves 1919 -- source link