Original British WWI Trench Raiding Club with Lead Core Military Maps about 1480

about 1480

This helmet features a steel frontplate (wappen)

New Jersey was born March 9th

and had some damage during storage

The steel wheels are apparently a little larger

Original British WWI Trench Raiding Club with Lead Core Military Maps about 1480Original Item: Only One Available. Trench raiding clubs were homemade melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding enemy soldiers. The clubs were usually made out of wood. It was common practice to fix a metal object at the striking end (e. g. an empty Mills bomb) in order to maximize the injury inflicted.