Wing Commander Roger Hargreaves Maw b. 24 Jun 1906 Kirton in Lindsey, , Lincolnshire, England d. Aug 1992 District Caistor: The Maw family

1906 - 1992 (86 years)

Name	Roger Hargreaves Maw
Prefix	Wing Commander
Alt. Birth	1906	Cleatham, , Lincolnshire, England
Birth	24 Jun 1906	Kirton in Lindsey, , Lincolnshire, England [1, 2]
	Name: Mother's Maiden Surname: MAW, ROGER HARGREAVES STEPHENSON GRO Reference: 1906 S Quarter in GLANFORD BRIGG Volume 07A Page 671 First name(s) Roger Hargreaves Last name Maw Birth quarter 3 Birth year 1906 Mother's maiden name - District Glanford Brigg County Lincolnshire Country England Volume 7A Page 671 Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Births Collections from United Kingdom, England Â© brightsolid online publishing ltd First name(s) Roger Hargreaves Last name Maw Gender Male Birth day 24 Birth month 6 Birth year 1906 Age - Death quarter 3 Registration Month 8 Death year 1992 District Caistor Register number 892 County Lincolnshire Volume 7 Page 1302 Country England Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from United Kingdom, England (c) brightsolid online publishing ltd
Gender	Male
Census	2 Apr 1911	Cleatham, , Lincolnshire, England [3]
	Cleatham Hall
	MAW, Arthur Matthew Head Married M 40 1871 Farmer Cleatham Lincolns MAW, Lucy Dora Hargreaves Wife Married 18 years F 44 1867 Thornton Curtis Lincs MAW, Lucy Madeleine Daughter Single F 17 1894 Cleatham Lincolnsh MAW, Richard Frame Mowbay Son M 8 1903 Cleatham Lincolnsh MAW, Roger Hargreaves Son M 4 1907 Cleatham Lincolnsh SMART, Lilian Caroline Servant Single F 32 1879 Professional Nurse Hull THOMAS, Frame Muriel Servant Single F 22 1889 Governess Nursery Unknown CRANSHAW, Emma Servant Single F 35 1876 Cook Domestic Leven Yorks SALMON, Sarah Elizabeth Servant Single F 19 1892 Housemaid Domestic Lincoln PIKE, Emily Elizabeth Servant Single F 16 1895 General Servant Domestic Horkstown Barton on Humber -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG number: RG14 Piece: 20052 Reference: RG14PN20052 RG78PN1200 RD424 SD1 ED4 SN38 Registration District: Glanford Brigg Sub District: Brigg Enumeration District: 4 Parish: Cleatham Address: Cleatham Hall Kirton Lindsey Lincolnshire County: Lincolnshire
Probate	21 Nov 1946	Lincoln, , Lincolnshire, England
	of father Arthur Matthew Maw
	Maw Arthur Matthew of Cleatham Hall Manton Lincolnshire died 22 January 1944 at The War Memorial Hospital Scunthorpe Lincolnshire Probate Lincoln 21 November 1946 to Roger Hargreaves Maw D.F.C. wing commander R.A.F. Effects £50825 12s. Former grant D.R. Lincoln 9 May 1944
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Death	Aug 1992	District Caistor [2]
	First name(s) Roger Hargreaves Last name Maw Gender Male Birth day 24 Birth month 6 Birth year 1906 Age - Death quarter 3 Registration Month 8 Death year 1992 District Caistor Register number 892 County Lincolnshire Volume 7 Page 1302 Country England Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from United Kingdom, England (c) brightsolid online publishing ltd
Burial	Aug 1992	St Mary, Walesby, , Lincolnshire, England
	First name(s) Roger Hargeaves Last name Maw Sex Male Birth year 1906 Birth date ? ? 1906 Age 86 Death year 1992 Death date ? ? 1992 Place Walesby Burial ground St Mary County Lincolnshire Country England Headstone notes [age calculated] Husband of Janett and father of Michael, Jocelyn and Tessa Reference A53 Record number 107724 Record set Lincolnshire Monumental Inscriptions Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Burials Collections from England, Great Britain Lincolnshire Family History Society Transcriptions © Lincolnshire Family History Society
Person ID	I14880	The Maw Family Tree
Last Modified	8 Apr 2022

Father	Arthur Matthew Maw, b. 31 Oct 1869, Cleatham, , Lincolnshire, England d. 22 Jan 1944, War Memorial Hospital, Scunthorpe, , Lincolnshire, England (Age 74 years)
Mother	Lucy Dora Hargreaves Stephenson, b. 5 Nov 1863, Thornton Curtis, , Lincolnshire, England d. 13 Jun 1944, Cleatham Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, , Lincolnshire, England (Age 80 years)
Marriage	Between Oct and Dec 1892	District Glanford Brigg [4]
Family ID	F1576	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Janet Mabel Thornton, b. 2 Jan 1908, District Frome d. Oct 1996, District Lincoln (Age 88 years)

Marriage Between Jul and Sep 1937 District Bournemouth [5]

Children

	1. Living
	2. Living
	3. Living

Family ID F4468 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Jul 2021

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Description:
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September 1992 - Wartime wooden horse hero dies

Wooden horse hero: Wing Commander Roger Hargreaves Maw who died back in 1992.

YOUR Mail was sad to report the death of local hero Wing Commander Roger Hargreaves Maw - the man who made the Wooden Horse of Sagen - back in 1992.
Wg Cdr Maw was central to the daring escape from a World War Two prison camp, Stalag Luft III, where he had been sent after being shot down on a bombing sortie.
As the prisoners' camp carpenter, the Wing Commander was asked to join the escape committee.
There his task was to build a vaulting horse, which he made out of any pieces of wood he could find, including wooden crates the Red Cross had sent containing food supplies.
Whilst his fellow prisoners of war jumped over the vaulting horse, men slowly but surely tunnelled to freedom and returned by the time the exercise period each day had finished.
Then one day, two men were carried to the hole and never returned to the barracks. The result of one of the most daring escapes in history was 14 days in the 'cooler' for Wg Cdr Maw.
He was born on a Kirton Lindsey farm in 1906 and his heart remained firmly in the land even after he took to the air with the RAF's 503 Special Reserve Squadron at Waddington in 1927.
He served in the RAF's equivalent to the Territorial Army until the outbreak of war and was commander of 12 Squadron Wellingtons at Binbrook by 1941.
He flew out to Egypt to take over 108 Squadron but never enjoyed his new company.
After being shot down, he was taken to the German war camp and became one of the 1,200 Allied prisoners of Stalag Luft III.
He remained there for two and a half years until he was liberated by the British in 1945.
After the war, he returned to his farm at Welton where he farmed until 1973 and on his retirement moved to Forest House in Walesby with his wife Janet.
He died at the age of 86.

jmaw
jamesmaw @ tiscali.co.uk

Sources

[S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Glanford Brigg - Volume 7a Page 671 (Reliability: 3).
[S37] England and Wales, Civil Registration 1984 - 2013, GRO Reference - District CAISTOR - Volume 7 Page 1302 (Reliability: 3).
[S114] 1911 England Census (2 April 1911), UK Cens 1911 - RG14PN20052 RG78PN1200 RD424 SD1 ED4 SN39 - (Glanford Brigg-Brigg) (Reliability: 3).
[S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Glanford Brigg - Volume 7a Page 1473 (Reliability: 3).
[S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Bournemouth - Volume 2b Page 2131 (Reliability: 3).

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Wing Commander Roger Hargreaves Maw