Stewart Blacker
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Stewart Blacker
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Lieutenant-Colonel Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker OBE was a British Army officer and inventor of weapons; he invented the Blacker Bombard, from which was developed the Hedgehog anti-submarine spigot-mortar – and laid the basis of the PIAT anti-tank weapon. A descendant of Valentine Blacker (1778–1823), he was born in Cheshire to Major Latham Blacker of the Indian Army. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Bedford School, before going to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After passing
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British Army officer and weapon inventor (1887–1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Blacker
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2023-10-29T21:17:26Z
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