Colombey-le-Belles.

It was in our area, on the banks of the Moselle, that the heroic and
gallant Lufberry fell, fighting, to his death. He is buried in the
little cemetery of Evacuation Hospital No. 1, near Toul.

Eddie Rickenbacker, Reed Landis, Tuper Weyman, Elmer Crowel, Bernard
Granville, Douglas Campbell, these and others were the gallant Aces of
our Army, flying and fighting daily over the front.

On September twenty-eighth Douglas Campbell fell in flames at Pannes. In
the cemetery of the old church there he is buried. It was with special
interest we cared for his grave, inasmuch as his home was in Kenilworth,
near our own Chicago.

Infantry contact flying was necessarily hazardous. It meant flying at an
elevation easily in reach of rifle fire.

Usually at mess, the evening before, the flyer, chosen for this mission,
would be notified. His companions, too, would hear of the selection; and
often indulged, in their own grim humorous way, of reminding him of the
fact! The man next to him at the table would softly and weirdly hum a
strain from Chopin's Funeral March, setting its music to the solemn
words, "Ten thousand dollars going home to the States!"

It was this trait in Buddie's character, however, ability to make the
best of things, to see the smooth and not the seamy side of Death's
mantle, that made him the most intelligent, cool, and resourceful of all
fighting men. His buoyancy of disposition and resiliency of spirit gave
him a self-confidence and initiative that made him rise superior to all
hardship, and, as it were, compelled circumstances to side with him.

The 10th Field Signal Battalion, commanded by the brilliant and
big-hearted Major Gustav Hirch of Columbus, Ohio, was a favorite
rendezvous of mine. The nature of work of these Signal men appealed to
me; and their nomadic habits co-ordinated happily with my duties,
frequently requiring me, along the changing front, "to fold my tent with
Arabs and silently steal away."

They had direct charge of the Intelligence Maintenance of War work, and
constituted the axes of liaison between the various Units of the
Division.

Their skill in the transmission of messages was most remarkable. Masking
their operations in the language of secret signs and ciphers, they made
use of the telephone, telegraph, radio, wig-wag, panel, carrier pigeon,
blinker, and last, and perhaps most dependable of all, the living
runner. The duty of the latter consisted in carry