Good Catch old boy!
On the 4th August 1916, 2nd Lieutenant H Lloyd Chadwick RFC and 2nd Lieutenant A Hadrill RFC were flying at a height of 8,000ft over La Basse in France in a F.E.2b.
Hadrill was the Observer and so was standing in the front cockpit of the aircraft. Incredibly, he managed to catch this German shell when it was almost stationary at the top of its trajectory and thus prevented it from falling inside the aeroplane.
You can actually see the shell at the Army Air Corp Museum (now the Museum of Army Flying) if any of you have been there or plan to go please enjoy my grandfather fought in the Army Air Corp during WWII and then went on to help make the museum, especially many of the scratch built models on display.
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