The next day
his notebook records two more victories:
"Attacked with Adjutant Bozon-Verduraz, four Albatros one-seaters, above
Brimont. Downed one in flames north of Villers-Franqueux, in our own
lines. Attacked a D.F.W. which spun down in our lines at Moussy."
These victories, his forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth, were
his farewell to the Aisne. But these excessive exertions brought on
nervous fatigue. The escadrille had only just reached its new station,
when Guynemer had to go into hospital, whence he wrote his father on
July 18 as follows:
Dear Father:
Knocked out again. Hospital. But this time I'm flourishing. No more
wooden barracks, but a farmhouse right in the fields. I have a room
all to myself. Quite correct: I downed three Fritzes, one ablaze,
and the next day again great sport: mistook four Boches for
Frenchmen. At first fought three of them, then one alone at 3200 to
800 meters. He took fire. They will have to wait till the earth
dries so they can dig him out. An hour later a two-seater turned up
at 5500.
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