Major-General Sir Millis Rowland Jefferis KBE MC (9 January 1899 – 5 September 1963) was a British military officer who founded a special unit of the...
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Australian artistic gymnast Millis Jefferis (1899–1963), British engineer developed unusual weapons during WWII Plummer E. Jefferis (1851–1925), American politician...
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anti-tank weapon in the hands of a colleague in the department, Major Millis Jefferis. Jefferis took the prototype Baby Bombard apart on the floor of his office...
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evacuation. The grenade was designed by a team from MIR(c) including Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae. It consisted of a glass sphere containing an explosive...
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organisation of the Second World War. Its two key figures were Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae, former editor of Armchair Science magazine. MD1...
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used by the SOE and Auxiliary Units. The two key figures were Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae. MD1 began in the "Military Intelligence Research"...
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bombard for naval use was made in partnership with MIR(c) under Major Millis Jefferis, who had taken Blacker's design and brought it into use with the Army...
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quote needs a citation] Another, subsequent type was developed by Millis Jefferis of MD1 known as the "Lead Delay switch" or officially "Switch, No....
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Europe. Blacker showed his list of ideas to the head of MD1, Major Millis Jefferis, who was taken with the design for the Bombard. He argued that it could...
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anti-tank" or PIAT. By 1942, the PIAT had been developed by Major Millis Jefferis. It was a combination of a HEAT warhead with a spigot mortar delivery...
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