Date of birth:

February 27th, 1921 (New Plymouth/Taranaki, New Zealand)

Date of death:

June 3rd, 1973

Service number:

NZ/4O2450

Nationality:

New Zealander (1907-1947, Dominion UK)

Ernest Clow flew a tour with No. 51 Squadron after which he was posted to No. 138 'SOE Special Duties' Squadron. He was made a POW when in the night of March 24th/25th, 1943, he was forced to ditch with Handley Page Halifax II, HR665,NF-L, in the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands.

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• - MEIJER, H.G. & VIS, R., Het Vliegerkruis, De Bataafsche Leeuw, Amsterdam, 1997.
  - Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 37300 published on the 5 October 1945
  - aircraft accidents in Yorkshire http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/dales/z9481.html - Ernest Clow - Online Cenotaph - Auckland War Memorial Museum