Ryckman, Edward Gurney (Second-Lieutenant)

Ryckman joined the RFC in late winter 1916. He was posted to 7 Squadron in France flying the BE2c, and was shot down in flames on a bombing mission on 1916-05-04. After suffering engine trouble he had dropped out of the attack. He and his observer (Lt. James Robert Dennistoun, British) were captured and made POWs, but both died soon after from burns and the injuries suffered in the crash.