_Pilot, Air Service_
On May 19, 1918, Captain Campbell shot down an enemy biplane east
of Flirey. On May 27th, at Montsec, he shot down one German machine
and drove two others behind their lines. On May 28th he brought down
a German Albatros and drove five others back. On May 31st, over
Lironville, he shot down an enemy plane and routed another. On June
5th, though shot through the back, he destroyed another German machine
over Eply.]
“I managed to find my men without difficulty. They had rushed through
the ruins of the village and were almost a hundred yards beyond the
wood, where the ground dips down slightly into a shallow valley and
mounts up gradually to a ridge about half a mile away. We were facing
south here, having Delville Wood away to our left and Leuze Wood on
our right. —— and I were the only two officers left in the company, so
it was up to us to take charge. There were not more than half a dozen
officers in this part of the line, and so we had a great deal of work
to do. We could see the Germans hopping over the distant ridge like
rabbits, and we had some difficulty in preventing our men from chasing
them, for we had orders not to go too far.
“We got them—Irish Fusiliers, Inniskillings, and Dublins—to dig in
by linking up the shell craters, and though the men were tired (some
wanted to smoke and others to make tea), they worked with a will, and
before long we had got a pretty decent trench outlined.