MOLLISON, Crawford Derek
| Service Number: | VX912 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/12th Field Regiment |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 October 1901 |
| Home Town: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Aircraft accident, Canal Creek via Yaamba, Queensland, Australia, 19 December 1943, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld Plot A, Row B ,Grave 5 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canal Creek War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Captain, VX912 | |
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| 4 Nov 1939: | Enlisted VX912, 2nd/12th Field Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Crawford Derek MOLLISON was born in Melbourne on 22nd October, 1901
His parents were Crawford Henry MOLLISON & Elizabeth Corientia BROWNE who married in Victoria in 1900
He married Muriel Wallis LUDBROOK on 2nd July, 1924 in Victoria - two known children, Barbara & Graeme
Biography contributed by David Barlow
USAAF Dakota C-47 #43-30742 (VH-CHR) of the 22nd Troop Carrier Squadron of the 374th Troop Carrier Group disintegrated in the air about 30 miles north of Rockhampton killing all 31 personnel on board. The loss of this aircraft is still the second worst Air Disaster in Australian Aviation history.
On board were 20 American Service personnel, an Australian War Correspondent (Harold George Dick), a Salvation Army Officer (Chaplain William Bramwell Tibbs BEM), Representative MacDonald of the YMCA, two members of the RAAF (LAC Cameron 426040 & LAC Oster 115325) & 6 Australian Army soldiers:
Corporal Sleep NX150010
Corporal Shard Q148539
Private Rasmussen Q271392
Captain Weir NX333
Captain Geddes SX4886
Captain Mollison VX912
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