{{Short description|English cricketer and Royal Air Force officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Michael Trentham Maw | birth_date = 29 September 1912 | birth_place = Nutfield, Surrey, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1944|8|13|1912|9|29}} | death_place = near Alzey, People's State of Hesse, Nazi Germany | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1933–1934 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 19 | bat avg1 = 6.33 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 9 | deliveries1 = 294 | wickets1 = 3 | bowl avg1 = 47.00 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 1/15 | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 26 July | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17444.html Cricinfo }}
'''Michael Trentham Maw''' {{postnominal|DFC}} (29 September 1912 – 13 August 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer.
The son of Mowbray Maw and his wife, Mary, he was born in September 1912 at Nutfield, Surrey. He was educated at Oundle School, before going up to Christ's College, Cambridge to read engineering.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |volume=2nd volume |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Northamptonshire at Fenner's in 1933. He made a further first-class appearance for Cambridge in 1934, against Nottinghamshire. In the same season he played for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Oxford University at Reigate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31331/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Michael Maw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-26 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> While at Cambridge, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve as a trainee pilot.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33812|date=29 March 1932|page=2111}}</ref>
After graduating from Cambridge he became a director in the family chemist business ''Messrs S. Maw & Sons Ltd''.<ref name="BOOK"/> Continuing in the Royal Air Force Reserve, he was promoted to the rank of flying officer in September 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33987|date=17 October 1933|page=6695}}</ref> Maw served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War with 640 Squadron, undertaking training at Cranwell and Calgary.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant in May 1941,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35171|date=23 May 1941|page=2948}}</ref> before being granted the temporary rank of squadron leader in July 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36092|date=13 July 1943|page=3206|supp=y}}</ref> Maw was killed while piloting a Halifax bomber during a raid over Frankfurt on 13 August 1944, having been shot down near Alzey.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in September 1944.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36706|date=15 September 1944|page=4326}}</ref> His body was recovered and buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.<ref name="BOOK"/>
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