CRAWFORD, Frederick Ryall
| Service Numbers: | 3281, 4788 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 August 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Footscray Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Adelaide | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Suez for Melbourne on board HS Runic | |
| 3 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4788, 29th Infantry Battalion | |
| 21 Jun 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4788, 29th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Melbourne for Liverpool on board HMAT A29 Suevic | |
| 29 Dec 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 38th Infantry Battalion, France | |
| 19 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4788, 38th Infantry Battalion, WiA France; GSW hand; invalided to UK | |
| 19 Apr 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4788, 38th Infantry Battalion, embarked Liverpool for Melbourne on board Sardinia | |
| 8 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4788, 38th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frederick Ryall Crawford (Service Nos:3281/4788) initially served in the AIF from 5 July 1915 to 3 June 1916 with 8th Infantry Battalion in Egypt. Hospitalised in Serapeum in 1916 with Nephritis (severe), he was invalided home for Discharge. On 19 April 1917, Private Crawford re-enlisted in the AIF (29th Infantry Battalion and 8th and 15th Training Battalions) and served on the Western Front with 38th Infantry Battalion. WiA in France (GSW hand) on 19 June 1918, Private Crawford was invalided to England. On 16 February 1919 he was notified that his wife had died in Melbourne of Influenza, and embarked from Liverpool for Melbourne on 18 April 1919. Private Crawford was attached to 38th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 8 July 1919.
Fred was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1888, 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.
Fred was a Bootmaker in Melbourne, where in 1912 he married Annie Maria Lawton (nee Durbin; b1867 in Newcastle, NSW) - Annie was a Widow with nine children. Fred and Annie settled in Melbourne, and following Annie's death in 1919 from Influenza, Fred remarried his step-daughter, Sarah Jane Lawton (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria). Fred and Sarah settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Bootmaker. The family spent a brief time in Doncaster in the early 1930s before returning to Melbourne, where Fred then was a Chemical and Process Worker. Fred died in 1959 and Sarah in 1967.