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 A Matrix Test was held, starting at 10:00 hours.  All Officers and Other Ranks sat this test.  The Battalion provided a guard on a Spitfire which had crashed near ABERGAVENNY.
 The following information was found on a Website dedicated to the history of Number 113 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
 '''Sgt Thomas Alfred Reginald Crowe'''

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	A Matrix Test was held, starting at 10:00 hours. All Officers and Other Ranks sat this test. The Battalion provided a guard on a Spitfire which had crashed near ABERGAVENNY.		A Matrix Test was held, starting at 10:00 hours. All Officers and Other Ranks sat this test. The Battalion provided a guard on a Spitfire which had crashed near ABERGAVENNY.
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		+	The following information was found on a Website dedicated to the history of Number 113 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
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		+	'''Sgt Thomas Alfred Reginald Crowe'''
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		+	Sgt Thomas Alfred Reginald Crowe, Sergeant (Pilot) 527339, Died 08/03/1942, Age 24 Son of Arthur and Martha A. Crowe, of Wallasey.
		+	Sec. 20.C. Grave 532 WALLASEY (RAKE LANE) CEMETERY.
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		+	The CWGC lists Sgt Crowe as being with the 113 Squadron at the time of his death but this is now confirmed to be an error through information received from Howell Davies. It is unknown whether Sgt Crowe was ever with the squadron.
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		+	Howell Davies of the N. Gwent Aviation Research Group kindly forwarded the following information Regarding Sgt Crowe on 30/06/07:
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		+	"At the time of his death he was a pupil at No. 53 O.T.U. based at Llandow, Glamorgan S. Wales. That Sunday morning (08/03/1942), he took off from Llandow in a Mk 1 Spitfire, serial number L1014 to carry out a training exercise. At 1035 hrs he crashed into the Holy Mountain approximately 2-miles NNE of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. I heard the sound of the impact 3 miles away at Gilwern, as I left my house to go to morning service at the local parish church. I visited the crash site on the following Tuesday. There had not been a fire but I saw nothing that resembled a Spitfire. Years later a local witness told me that the aircraft had broken cloud in a high speed dive and attempted to pull-out but was too low to carry out the manoeuvre.
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		+	Post-war I tried to find out more about Sgt. Crowe. The War Graves Commission gave me details of his burial location and also advised that 113 Squadron was referred to on his gravestone. I realised that 113 were overseas at the time of his death and assumed that he must have previously served on the squadron. Finally, I tried to locate next of kin via the local Wallasey newspaper but received no response.
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		+	I have often thought of Sgt. Crowe down the years. My own belief is that he joined the RAF pre-war, trained as ground crew and while on 113 squadron re-mustered to aircrew. He probably trained in Canada and having gained his wings was completing his final operational training back in the UK when he so tragically met his death. (It also may have been that he trained as a Blenheim pilot, served his overseas tour and was retraining as a fighter Pilot.)
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