Bullet removed from left thigh wound of Lieutenant C M Feez, 4 Squadron AFC

Cupro-nickel washed, steel jacketed, lead core, pointed, boat tail projectile with slightly bent tip.

Associated with the capture and internment of 31938 Lieutenant Cecil Molle Feez, 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Feez joined the Australian Military Force (Artillery) on 22nd August 1916, aged eighteen years. He embarked for overseas service as a member of 2 Field Artillery Brigade on RMS Osterley on 17 February 1917 with rank of corporal. He transferred from the Artillery to 29 Training Squadron on 27 July 1917 and then to 34 Training Squadron on 7 October 1917. Flew solo after seven and a half hours. Feez was commissioned as a pilot with the rank of second lieutenant on 10 December 1917. He was posted to France on 6 February 1918 and joined 4 Squadron AFC (No.10 Wing), which was stationed at Brauy, flying Sopwith Camel aircraft. He is credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft. On 28 March 1918 he was shot down near Arras by aircraft from Richthofen's squadron and was wounded in the left thigh. Captured by the Germans and interned in Landshutt POW camp he was later involved in an unsuccessful escape attempt. Feez repatriated at the end of the war and arrived back in England on 14 December 1918.