Colin Thomas Methven, service number 10327, R.F.C. Royal Flying Corps. Part of a Lewis machine gun (the foresight from a F.E.2b Farman Experimental 2bi-plane or an F.E.2d?) that allowed the gunner to fire the machine gun through the propeller of the aircraft. Taken by Colin Methven as a souvenir - 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. 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.

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 .

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.