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In 1940, he was commanding officer of the Military Hospital at Edinburgh Castle, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He saw that the Polish forces included medical professors, lecturers and students and conceived the idea of these students being taught by their own teachers in Polish. He proposed establishing a Polish Medical Faculty in the University of Edinburgh, supported by the dean of the medical faculty, Professor Sydney Smith. The move was approved by the university senate with the backing of the Principal, Sir Thomas Holland. The University signed an agreement with the Polish Government in Exile in London, headed by General Wladyslaw Sikorski, on 24 February 1941, to create the Polish Medical School.

Crew was one of eight Scottish professors in the school, working alongside ten Polish professors. On 28 May 1943, the President of the Polish Republic, Władysław Raczkiewicz, created Crew a Commander of the Order "Polonia Restituta" alongside Professor Sydney Smith and Sir Thomas Holland, at a ceremony in the University's McEwan Hall.

On 4 June 1996, Crew attended a special graduation ceremony at the University of Edinburgh marking the 25th anniversary of the Polish School of Medicine's foundation. Professor John Crofton, dean of the medical faculty, said in the opening address: "[...] to bring about the Polish School of Medicine [...] required a substantial pinch of imagination as a catalyst. This un-British ingredient was provided by Professor Frank Crew [...], but of course in respect of imagination Professor Crew is at least a couple of standard deviations from the British mean ."

= Krystyna Magdalena Munk = Krystyna Magdalena Munk (29 April 1913-15 March 1999) was a Polish doctor who completed her studies at the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh during World War II.

Early Life and Education
She was born in Zadworze near Lwow (now Lviv) in Eastern Poland to Ludwik and Antonina (nee Frysz) Munk. In 1932, she passed the Matura, the high school leaving certificate, at the Emilia Plater secondary school in Cracow. She went directly from school to the city's Jagiellonian University to study biology, but the following year, 1933, she changed her course to medicine, receiving an "absolutorium" (certificate of completion) in 1938.

War Experience
She was undertaking hospital training in Athens, Greece, when war broke out, and returned to Lwow where she was sent to a military field hospital in Tarnopol. Following the Soviet occupation of the area, she returned to Athens via Hungary and Romania, travelling from there to Marseille, where the Polish Consulate found her a medical post on the Polish merchant ship, SS Warszawa, which transported troops and weapons across the Mediterranean. She worked there for two years until the ship was sunk by a German torpedo on December 26 1941. Munk supervised the ship's evacuation and, along with the captain, was among the very last to leave. They were rescued by the British corvette Peony and taken to Tobruk. She received the British "Oak Leaf" decoration and a congratulatory letter from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Life in Scotland
She reached England in April 1942 on a naval convoy, and went to Scotland in May where she joined the Polish School of Medicine in order to complete her studies. She graduated with an M.B.Ch.B. on 21 April 1943, and was awarded a doctorate on 29 June 1946. She stayed in Edinburgh after the war as a GP, and married the naval architect Symington McDonald. Towards the end of her life, she lost her sight and developed Parkinson's Disease, dying in Edinburgh in 1999.