Arthur Maurice Crow

Arthur Maurice Crow was born in Dundee in 1921 and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, serving as a wireless operator/air gunner with No. 235 Squadron from October 1940. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal in July 1942 for his alertness and coolness under fire, and was Mentioned in Despatches for operations over Malta. Commissioned and remustering as a navigator, he joined No. 544 (Photographic Reconnaissance) Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, gazetted 5 January 1945, for numerous operations carried out with outstanding skill, courage and devotion to duty. On 29 December 1944, flying as navigator in Mosquito PR.XVI NS791 with Flight Lieutenant Olaf Olson on a reconnaissance sortie over Germany, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by a Messerschmitt Me 262. Both men bailed out, but Crow was taken prisoner and subsequently murdered by SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Friedrich Uhrig near Langlingen; Uhrig was convicted of the war crime by a British Military Court at Hanover in February 1946 and executed at Hamelin Prison in May 1946. Flight Lieutenant Crow is buried at Hanover War Cemetery, grave 10.C.16.