rifle-bomber

Updated: May 9, 2025

The idea appears to have been sound enough, but the attempt to rush it through in three weeks' time was hardly likely to have good results. To convert a rifleman into a rifle-bomber in a week's training was of course out of the question. Hitherto only the most expert and steadiest bombers had been employed on rifle-grenade work.

Francis Buckley - Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918