20211 - British 24th Foot Defending with Bayonet, No.3, 1879 First Legion-Stalingrad Russians The most famous of these

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A poignant little set

Three sitting Aussie ‘Grunts’ from the Royal Australian Regiment in various seated poses

20211 - British 24th Foot Defending with Bayonet, No.3, 1879 First Legion-Stalingrad Russians The most famous of theseBritish 24th Foot Defending with Bayonet, No. 3, 1879 The 22" Common socket bayonet was gruesomely nicknamed The Lunger by the men in the field. The bayonet was purely a stabbing weapon it had no sharp edges, except for the point and its triangular design made it a particularly nasty instrument for those unlucky enough to come up against it. Frequently misidentified as the Pattern 76, the official designation was the Bayonet Common Long and was marked