It would be difficult to find a story of bravery and devotion to duty to beat this.
By April the 20th, the offensive had died down, but our advance had gone so well that Brigade H.Q. were in a position to consider moving their squadrons forward. In company with the O.C. 10th Wing, I hunted for possible sites for a new aerodrome for us, including Chateau-de-la-Haie,
and the land along the Gouy-Servins-Carency road, but we
could not find anything suitable in this area. At the beginning of May, a good site was found at Mont St. Eloi and after using this as an advanced landing ground for a short time, it was decided to erect a camp there and to move the whole Squadron as soon as possible.
On April 24th, we had the misfortune to lose Walter who was killed near Bailleul in a scrap with three “Albatross” Scouts. On the same day we had a splendid view of a fight in which the principals were Little, in a “Sopwith” Triplane, a “Nieuport” from No. 40 Squadron, and a two-seater “Aviatick.” The Hun was sighted over the aerodrome at about 10,000 feet and Little went up after him. A “Nieuport” appeared about the same time and both British machines got into action with the enemy at 12,000 feet, between our aerodrome and Bailleul. After scrapping 
for about twenty minutes, during which time the enemy machine was being forced lower and lower, Little managed to get a shot into the “Aviatick’s” petrol tank, and the last we saw of the fight was the Hun diving down over the Bois de Revillion followed at a terrific pace by the “Sopwith” and the “Nieuport," This fight had an amusing finish. Forced down owing to loss of petrol the enemy machine landed without damage in a field at Les Facons. A few seconds later Little followed, and, in his haste, made a rough landing and turned upside down, The “Nieuport” did exactly the same thing, and when Little crawled out of his machine to claim his prisoner, the German pilot saluted smartly and said in English: “It looks as if I have brought you down, not you me, doesn’t it.” The machine was a brand new one with a 200 “Benz” engine and had come over to take photographs of St. Eloi aerodrome, and the area around Bethune. The pilot’s name was Neumuller and the observer’s, Huppertz. During the fight, the latter had got himself hopelessly entangled in his machine gun belt, and after the machine had landed, it took Little and Neumuller quite a time to free him. Neumuller said he thought the war ought to be over during the summer because England was starving. He was very surprised when at lunch at No. 1 Balloon Wing Headquarters a large plate of meat was put in front of him.
