"Minenwerfer" Booklet

[jwburchell]

Pictured here is a small (18 cm. x 11.5 cm.); well-used, 13-page military instruction booklet entitled: "Ausruestungsliste fuer den leichten Minenwerfer n/A."

It is also marked:

"Nur fuer den Dienstgebrauch bestimmt"
"Berlin 1916"
and
"Gedruckt in der Reichsdruckeri".

One page showing accessories is also shown here.

I hope it is of interest to some WAF members.

John

[Chip M]

This is interesting. The most well known Minenwerfer manuals were printed after the war in the 1920s. This is the first wartime one I have seen. If there is a key to the numbers on the accessories page, could you please post that too?

There was an accessories box that came with the MW. I believe it was a metal case that would have contained most of these items. A few of these same things were carried in the wooden box for the Granatenwerfer. It had an accessories list on a metal plate inside the lid.

Chip

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

can confirm these are the things in the metal case, I was lucky enough to get a complete case.

[Gerdan]

Even in Australia you find this famous boklet:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2084775...ion=NBD8329272

Gerdan

[jwburchell]

Given the level of interest this little booklet has generated (I guess not many of them survived), I am posting additional scans here for additional information.

[jwburchell]

More:

[jwburchell]

...and more:

[Chris Boonzaier]

Thats great, they used to go in a little pocket inside the case if I am not mistaken.

[Gew44]

Wow, fantastic book !

[Hoss]

Hi,

can confirm these are the things in the metal case, I was lucky enough to get a complete case.

Gulp! Chris that I gotta see when you have the time.

Thank you for showing, interesting info.

Eric

[Chip M]

Thanks for posting the additional information. I have seen pictures of Chris's example. Due to the condition of the piece, I am guessing it must have come out of an underground bunker or something like that.

Chip

[Chris Boonzaier]

Thanks for posting the additional information. I have seen pictures of Chris's example. Due to the condition of the piece, I am guessing it must have come out of an underground bunker or something like that.

Chip

Yup,

A number of decades ago from positions behind Hill 304,

unfortunately I can no longer post pics, but it is basically just as pictured in the booklet.

The positions must have been overrun in in late August 1917.

best
Chris