MvR receives 'Pour le mérite'

After two days - we were sitting comfortably at the Boelcke fighter squadron and celebrating my farewell - a telegram arrived from headquarters to say that Your Majesty had had the good grace to award me the Pour le mérite. Of course I was delighted. It was a plaster on the previous one. * I hadn't imagined it would be as nice to lead a hunting squadron as it turned out to be in reality. I never dreamed that there would one day be a Richthofen fighter squadron.