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This smoke grenade was made of a zinc body, filled with a Hexachlorethane mixture.
It's fuze worked the same as the No1 and No3, but had no delay.
The body would burn together with the HC filling in approx. 2.5 minutes.
After 1940, when the Germans occupied Holland, the grenade was used under their name , 333(h).

Weight 500gram.

Photo © B. Bosman.