Our artillery were unable to bring down a German aeroplane flying right
above us, when suddenly a French aeroplane rose like a shot and hovered
above the German machine, which was flying over our trenches from
end to end. What really happened I don’t know, but shots having been
exchanged between the aeroplanes, the next thing we saw was the German
spinning around us as if all control had been lost. It came down with a
sickening crash just beyond us: _Private D. Schofield_.