Historical information
Italian M - 35 model SRCM hand grenade. Named “Red devils” by the British in the Desert campaigns
Physical description
The grenade comes in four parts minus the fuse.
1. Aluminium top plate aluminium colour attached to a wire circle with a pin and attached with a small chain.
.2) Aluminium red colour cylinder shaped with an internal thread with 2 small pin slots.
.3) Aluminium red colour cylinder shaped with external thread.
.4) Round cylinder with wire woven around its outside, this is part of the inner workings, not shown.
Inscriptions & markings
.1) “Societa Romana” stamped on.
