John Wilson Crawford
Australian Army officer
Died when: 43 years 242 days (523 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Brigadier John Wilson Crawford, DSO, ED (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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