Aerial view of a Lancaster bomber of No 463 Squadron RAAF flying low over the town of St Cyr, ...

Aerial view of a Lancaster bomber of No 463 Squadron RAAF flying low over the town of St Cyr, France, just prior to crashing on 25 July 1944. The aircraft's starboard (right) inner engine is on fire and the remaining engines are losing fuel. Of the crew of seven, five parachuted out shortly after this photograph was taken: 426527 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Edward Burke (tail gunner); 426565 Flt Sgt Edward John Fallon (bomb aimer-air gunner); 426794 Flt Sgt Nevin Michael Davidson (mid-upper gunner); 417899 Flt Sgt John Barnes Sincock (navigator) and an RAF crew replacement for this operation 1891750 Flt Sgt Frank Wadsworth (flight engineer). The men were taken prisoner of war (POW). The remaining two crew members, 417833 Flying Officer Donald Charles Gundry (pilot, aged 27) and 426691 Flight Sergeant Vernon John Scheldt (wireless operator, aged 22) stayed aboard the aircraft to assist or give others time to get out, and were killed soon after in the crash. They are buried in a joint grave at the Omerville Communal Cemetery, not far from the crash site.