CRAWFORD, Henry Glen
| Service Number: | 17963 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 February 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Squadron Engineers |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tanner |
| Died: | Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia , 22 May 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 11 Feb 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 17963, 1st and 2nd Field Troops | |
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| 9 May 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 17963, 1st and 2nd Field Troops, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 9 May 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 17963, 1st and 2nd Field Troops, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney | |
| 26 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 17963, 2nd Field Squadron Engineers, embarked Suez for Melbourne on board HT Burma | |
| 10 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 17963, 2nd Field Squadron Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
T/Driver Henry Glen Crawford (Service No:17963) enlisted in the AIF in Sydney NSW on 11 February 1917, and was a Sapper attached to 1st and 2nd Field Troops (Engineers) on 9 May 1917 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney NSW for Suez on board HMAT A15 Port Sydney. Sapper Crawford served in Egypt with Engineers Training Unit and was a T/Driver attached to 2nd Field Squadron Engineers when he embarked from Suez for Melbourne on 26 July 1919 on board HT Burma. T/Driver Crawford was Discharged on 10 October 1919. Siblings Fred and Ernest also served in WWI.
Henry was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1890, fourth of nine children of David Crawford (b1856 in Hobart, Tasmania) and Agnes Jane Ryall (b1863 in Melbourne, Victoria). David (a Carpenter) and Agnes married in 1884 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and David worked as a Carpenter. Agnes died in 1911 and David in 1917.
Henry worked as a Cook in Melbourne where, in 1910, he married Florence (Flo) Adeline Seeber (b1891 in Preston, Melbourne, Victoria). Henry and Flo settled in Melbourne, where Henry worked as a Cook and a Tanner before enlisting in the AIF in 1917 (in Sydney). Flo remained Melbourne and lived there until her death in 1959. Henry returned to Melbourne following his Discharge in 1919, and by 1923, correspondence from the Army to his given address in Preston, Melbourne was returned marked 'Gone Away'. In the 1940s Henry was working as a Labourer and living at Swan Hill in Victoria, where he died in 1957.