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Stewart Blacker

01 Oct, 1887 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK

Lieutenant-Colonel Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker (1 October 1887 – 19 April 1964) 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.

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