Shrapnel shells caused the majority of artillery-inflicted wounds in that war.
John Melville and Daniel Paton of Montrose Air Station Museum found the 15lb
shrapnel shell on the doorstep on Wednesday.
Local sources said the governmental school of Abdullah bin Rawaha, east of Deir al-Balah, was hit by
shrapnel shells as part of the Israeli shelling of the eastern part of the city.
One First World War history site goes into more graphic detail of this devastating battle, stating that: "The British preliminary bombardment started at 5am, the field artillery pounding the barbed wire with
shrapnel shells while the howitzers showered the trenches with large-calibre shells.
Crawley notes the artillery had mostly
shrapnel shells, which had limited value against sheltered defensive positions.