While downing his 34th victim (a Fokker D.VII) he was critically wounded by two bullets; one hit him in the thigh and the other pierced his chest back to front passing through a lung.
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However, not until the squadron transitioned in June from Nieuports to the sturdy SPAD series did he hit his stride.
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He was a team player, sharing seven victories between 3 April and 22 August 1918 with such other balloon buster aces as Paul Y. R. Waddington, Paul Barbreau, Paul Petit, Jacques Ehrlich, Théophile Henri Condemine, and Michel Coiffard.