John Wilson Crawford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian Army officer (1899-1943)
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Place of Birth: Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
About John Wilson Crawford
- Brigadier John Wilson Crawford, (8 July 1899 – 7 March 1943) served in the Australian Army during the Second World War.
- Prior to the war, he was a solicitor and an officer in the Citizen Military Forces.
- Called up to the army following the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, he commanded the 2/17th Battalion during the Siege of Tobruk.
- From April 1942, he commanded the 11th Brigade and York Force.
- He was killed in an aircraft crash near Cairns on 7 March 1943.
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