The Grenade Accident on Cannock Chase
In April 1918 a potentially lethal accident during a bombing lesson on Cannock Chase was narrowly averted by the quick thinking of 23927 Lieutenant Randolph Gordon Ridling, the Bombing Officer in charge of a group of New Zealand Riflemen.
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[Source: This article was first published in The New Zealand Communication Trench, October 2015, the newsletter of the New Zealand Branch of the Western Front Association.]