Entry Text: | BLACKER, Stewart. Pathans, Planes and Petards. 134p., frontis. [n.p.: author, c.1967].
Born in 1887 he served in the Indian Army and on retirement became an inventor. He was much concerned with the development of forward-firing spigot weapons and the creation of Hedgehog, a system of firing a cluster of bombs when attacking submarines. |
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