i have a old knife dated 1914 what does the term tpo kidney mean?is this a army or millitary term? thanks.?

Question

knife from england.kepted by relative,for many years.knife discription:
bullit shell,with point soldered on.metal carved like knike dagger.information punched in metal . tpo kidney 1914. persons,name/home town but not his rank or branch of service.this was stored in a drawer for many years by a couusin of my mothers until i got it a few years ago. besides needing info on the tpo kidnry,how can i get the information about this person? he was a p.o.w.? thanks.phil

Answer 1

That knife's homemade, obviously. Knives made en masse aren't soldered. In fact, no mass produced item would was made using a bullet. This is war loot, items found on battlefields that people, sometimes soldiers, sometimes locals, made into souvenirs for soldiers to take home. That was a big bad thing in Korea, Korean kids going out into mine fields to get shells casings to be made into ashtrays. I'm sure that didn't start with them.

If you want to know about the person, look up his name in old war records. England was especially good for keeping theirs, because so MANY people went to war. If he's not there, he probably wasn't a soldier. The person could have been sent it as a gift from the front lines, I suppose, from a friend or family member, but WWI was trench warfare, not all that much leisure time, I would guess, so I don't know who would have made it. If he wasn't a soldier, check the old census records for that area. England had those, too.

That it says "kidney" means that it's not German, or foreign for that matter. That's an English word. It may actually be what the knife is made FROM. Different bullets and shells had different nicknames, and that may have been what that particular shell was called by soldiers.

Answer 2

It's possible that tpo may stand for trooper (maybe spelled troopour in Britain. Kidney was probably a name of a person or a town. It also just might be the name of the knife. And the person who owned it? I honestly don't know.

Answer 3

whilst i replaced into sixteen I objected to the term- my son- which got here from no longer my father yet an entire stranger. My mate hates being referred to as a Chav, i can not stand the term center elderly, it sounds greater like center an prolonged time ! Geriatric is yet another bone of rivalry ? What approximately Recycled teenager or energetic Pensioner ? i think of I want Senior Citizen, yet there back it extremely is basically my own very own view. it extremely is the hassle there are continuously people who desire to pigeonhole and steriotype everybody, yet everybody is a individual, at each and all ages point and what seems to be like the two appropriate to the age attained, the guy could be the two forward or backward to those years. a buddy of mine is 40-one yet acts like a 80 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous, my mum whilst at 80 acted greater like a teenager, so as that leaves the question why catigorise interior the 1st place? we are all component to the human race, as long as we don't come final who cares !!lol!!

Answer 4

http://www.allaboutknives.net/ poke around in here maybe you will see something you have, i looked around a little what i came up with for the TPO. its stands for Tool polishing.they polished them to a certain angle on the edge of the blade.

Answer 5

Let me pay you a MILLION DOLLAR if the NAZI symbol return on the knife.

Its an invaluable treasure if it was used to slaughter the Devil JEWS by "HiTLer, tHe jUsTiCe pRoViDeR" .

***
Salute the "HiTLer, tHe bRaVe RuLeR"