This is one of the 20mm Cannon Shells fired by Mosquito ... The wreckage of their aircraft was excavated 39 years later and the shell presented to me (sadly my father died just before the excavation).

beneath the waves, the shell was identified by experts in our Scientist Ashore network as likely from a 40 mm MK-1 Bofors round used by an anti-aircraft gun in ... WWII,” the trust wrote.

A police cordon was put up after Raymond Berry pulled out the 10-inch First World War artillery shell from the River Medway in Maidstone. The First World War anti-aircraft shell which Raymond ...