CRAWFORD, Harold
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 4 March 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
| Born: | Kerang, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Mont Albert North, Whitehorse, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 31 August 1958, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Mar 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 | |
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| 10 Jun 1918: | Involvement Captain, Medical Officers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Jun 1918: | Embarked Captain, Medical Officers, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, ex Port Said to UK per HT Tagus | |
| 2 Dec 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, per Shropshire | |
| 3 Mar 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Born in 1891 in Kerang Victoria, Harold and his twin brother Percival were the youngest of nine children of Robert (Bob) Crawford (b1855 in Geelong, Victoria) and Anne Elizabeth Neale (b1855 in Warwickshire, England). Bob (a Baker) and Anne married in 1875 in Carisbrook, Victoria and lived in the region - Maryborough, Carisbrook, Durham Lead, Durham Ox and Kerang - until 1894 when Bob moved Anne and the children to Box Hill in Melbourne, Victoria and he and his sister-in-law (with their two children together and Bob's eldest son Jim) left for the WA Goldfields.
Harold and Percy completed medical studies at Melbourne University, and in February 1918 Harold was a Medical Practitioner when he enlisted in the AIF. Percy had enlisted (Lance Crporal; Service No:917) in February 1916 but was Discharged in December that year as Medically Unfit - he had suffered a compound fracture of his forearm. Harold served in Egypt with the Australian Army Medical Corps and was posted to London July 1919, where he had leave to visit UK hospitals and 'become conversant with latest developments in surgery' (National Archives Australia).
Following his Discharge in March 1920, Harold was working at Chinchilla Hospital when he married Edith Janet Adams (b1895 in Gladstone, QLD) - Edith was a Nurse at the General Hospital in Townsville QLD. By the late 1920s Harold and Edith had relocated from Chinchilla to Brisbane, QLD where Harold was a Medical Practitioner, Orthopeadic Surgeon and advocate for medical services to regional QLD. He served in WWII (Major; Service Nos:QX48898/Q119626) from 1941 to 1944.
Harold was Senior Counsellor for QLD Royal Flying Doctor Service (1940 - 1957); a child specialist at Brisbane Children's Hospital (1945); Convenor of the QLD Presbyterrian Medical Social Services Committee (1948); Member of the 4BH Community Chest Committee (1950); Chair of St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital Appeal (1953); Chair of National Fitness Council QLD (1952) and Chair of the St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital Board of Governors.
Harold died in 1958 and Edith in 1970.