A Short History of Royal Engineer Bomb Disposal including that of 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), the Reserve Army and Territorial Army Units
By Lt Col E.E. Wakeling ERD
Read more…
http://www.bombdisposalclub.org.uk/BD_history.htm
A great read
Anyone fancy a pint
As predicted by Hancock, with the establishment of the RLC the Catering Corps has indeed taken over Bomb Disposal Duties…
“What are you going to do? Fry it?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGvBOZrPf8
That link says that the firs bombs dropped on the UK were in 1939; I take it that all of the bombs the Germans dropped from the Zeppelins in 1914-1918 actually went off then?
I didn’t think they did as i’m pretty sure that Yarmouth had complete examples of (hopefully) deactivated bombs in their museum, and I suspect that the casing would have burst had it have exploded.