While under siege at Tobruk during WWll , soldier James Frederick " Big Jim" Bowditch , the man who would later become the Northern Territory's fearless , crusading editor , handled dangerous sticky bombs , one of which (deloused) recently turned up , above , on the BBC Antiques Roadshow , valued at 500-700 pound. A British invention, sticky bombs, filled with nitroglycerin , were designed to be used against tanks and other military vehicles . An outer case was removed, a pin pulled from the sticky covered interior which activated a fuse which went off after five seconds . This blog , in dealing with Bowditch's war service , ran his account of having used sticky bombs.
Bowditch would have had a chuckle at the fact that the British Home Guard was supplied with sticky bombs and one of them figured in a Dad's Army television farce .
