In the Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery section in front of the graves of the SAS soldiers. Isolated Burial

An upright stone marker commemorating 2Lt Bundy who died on July 7, 1944, after being executed along with 30 SAS  men (Operation Bulbasket) by the Germans firing squad during World War II. 

Bundy was hit by flak in his P-51 Mustang (43-7153) 'Rauk-et' and he crashed near La Maillerave on 10 Jun 1944. (Other reports indicated he was shot down by one of the Luftwaffe’s top aces, Staffelkapitän (Squadron Commander) Lutz-Wilhelm Burkhardt of Jagdgeschwader -Fighter Wing 1). He made his way south 300 km, found by a friendly French family who passed him on to the Maquis, he was then passed to the British SAS to arrange his escape. He, together with the SAS were discovered by the Germans and all were executed. In December 1944 the mass grave was discovered in the Bois de Guron, South-west of Poitiers. All bodies were exhumed, and reburied with full military honours, on 23 December 1944, in the village graveyard of Rom, France.

His name is honored on the 352nd Fighter Group Monument in Bodney, UK and he also is remembered on a monument in Crulai, France.

https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=1483&MemID=1964.

https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=866&MemID=1167

Source of photos: www.ww2cemeteries.com, www.findagrave.com, www.americanairmuseum.com

BURIED IN THIS OR THE 

NEARBY COMMUNAL GRAVE

0-804996 2ND LIEUTENANT

L. D. BUNDY

UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES

7TH JULY 1944