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“It seemed unbelievable but it was a fact. Then I wondered if what I had just come from was fact & caught sight of the yellow of the Lyddite or whatever the Bulgars used in their shells on my fingers & finger nails.”

It was “like electric shocks in both legs” or “a lyddite shell,” as one author observed in 1900, just four years after the introduction of that explosive into the British Army.

He explains that when "lyddite", an early type of high explosive, dries out it can become very unstable.

Consequently, it would not be necessary to pick out the separate emplacements and guns for destruction, it would only be necessary to drop a steel projectile filled with high explosive, lyddite, for instance, on or near the range-finding bases.

"A shell would never throw out a cloud of smoke like that; it's not the colour of lyddite either."