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Crain Communal Cemetery is situated on the left hand side of the D39 which passes through the village off the RN 151 (Clamecy-Auxerre) and is on the north bank of the Yonne.Lucy sur Yonne is on the south bank of the river and is connected to Crain by a bridge and is where Bradford and Devine were killed in action.
After working our way through this region we called at a vineyard in St Bris which was recommended to me as having the quality of its white as good as Chablis and much cheaper.It did not have an Appellation then, but it has now. Approaching "S", the madame of the establishment to buy wine (same beautiful name as my Grandmother).Her greeting to me was "vous Allemand" I quickly replied "non, Anglais" .Then there was a welome smile.
The graves in the Montsauche Anglo Maquis cemetery were the original graves of a No 640 Squadron,Royal Air Force crew (Halifax Mark 111 NA563) operating out of Leconfield which was lost on 11 August 1944 when it crashed at Gouloux nr Montsauche on an operation to the Dijon railyards.One of two Halifaxes lost on this operation from this squadron.The other Halifax had an experienced crew, having nearly completed their tour.All evaded.
The Montsauche burials were transferred to Nantes about 1961.Despite this, there seems to be a myth that the graves are still the graves of P/O P C M Hellegers and his crew.
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