Character reference for Colin Thomas Methven, service number 10327, R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps)who served as an electrician for two and a half years. It states he was intelligent and a possessed very good workmanship on the job .

Discharge certificate for William Hunt || In this discharge certificate William Hunt's details include: Regtl No 17127; Rank: Lance Corporal; Unit: Manchester Regiment; Enlisted on: 16th November 1914; Medals and decorations: 1914-1915 Star, British War medal, Victory medal; Chevrons - red nil, blue four, wound stripes one; Medical Category A; year of birth 1890; Transferred to army reserve on 19th March 1919; signed W. Lowerbutts Lt., Preston. This is part of a collection that relates to William Hunt. Hunt signed on in 1915 at Manchester Town Hall to the 5th City Battalion, Manchester Regiment. His initial training was at Bellvue, Manchester then Morcambe and finally Grantham, before going to France in December 1915. He fought at Albert and Fricourt and after a spell behind the lines with trench fever was sent back to the front to join the 8th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Thiepval where he was injured by mortar fire, wounded through the thigh and taken prisoner on 26th August 1916. He then spent the rest of the war in two or three prisoner of war camps before being repatriated at the end of the war and demobilised at Preston on 19th March 1919. In his attestation certificate, downloaded from the Ancestry website, Hunt's details include: No. 1712 ?; Corps: 5th City ? Batt. Mtsr Manchester? Regt; Your name: William Hunt: Address: Rosslyn, Hazelwood Rd, Hale ?, Cheshire; Age: 24 years 10 months; Trade: clerk; Married: no; Previous service: no; Witness to Hunt's signature: K. Howell. Two CDs of his story have been recorded telling the details of his wartime experiences from signing on to repatriation. These are marked 20 SB Manchester Res. L/C William Hunt, No. 17127. WW1 memories. A number of photographs of the period are also in the collection and postcards to his fiance, May Stone. || || Official document || 53.76345389999999,-2.7033007999999654

Two photographs of Colin Thomas Methven, service number 10327, R.F.C.(Royal Flying Corps). He was based at Auchel Aerodrome, Pas de Calais during WWI. He enlisted in Kilkenny in October 1915 and was officially discharged on 19 March 1918. One small photograph was taken after he enlisted in 1917; the larger photograph was taken in 1918 after he lost his left hand and eye and suffered severe damage to his left ear in a flying accident - his discharge papers refer to this. He is shown wearing woolen gloves in this larger photograph to camouflage that he had lost his left hand.