There had been a fierce fight in the air between the English and the German airplanes. Second-Lieut. Norman Gordon Smith, who belonged to the 2nd Squadron R.F.C., had the misfortune to have his machine shot down, and he himself was killed. The Germans took his dead body and reverently buried it in the graveyard at Oostcamp, in Belgium, near where he fell, on December 29th 1915. They cut off the end of his airplane and put it at the head of his grave, and engraved his name, etc., on it.
There he lies dead in his young manhood, like tens of thousands of others, full of the ardour of life one moment, the next moment lifeless. The brave young soul gone into eternity, another victim to the awful crime of war.