CRAWFORD, Frederick William
| Service Numbers: | VE322457, PM3103 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 October 1936 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | 24th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 14 November 1920 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Frankston High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Boot Finisher |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 September 2004, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 12 Oct 1936: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VE322457, 24th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 21 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PM3103 | |
| 6 Apr 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VE322457, 24th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 7 Jun 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PM3103 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Able Seaman Frederick William Crawford (Service No:PM3103) initially served in the Militia (Private; Service No:VE322457) - Part Time Duty - from 12 October 1936 to 6 April 1940. He gave an incorrect DoB (16 August 1918) on enlistment, and was attached to 24 Battalion. On 21 October 1940 he enlisted in the RAN at Port Melbourne, and served as an Ordinary Seaman on HMAS Lonsdale, Kuttabul and Adelaide. Able Seaman Crawford was attached to HMAS Lonsdale at Discharge on 7 June 1946.
Frederick was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1920, third of nine children of Frederick (Fred) Ryall Crawford (b1888 in Melbourne, Victoria) and his second wife Sara Jane Lawton (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria). Fred (a Bootmaker) and Sarah married (Fred served in WWI) in 1920 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Fred worked as a Bootmaker/Finisher and Process and Chemical Worker.
Frederick was a Boot Finisher in Melbourne in 1936 when he enlisted in the Militia. He was in the RAN in 1944 when he married first wife Dorothy Jean Patton (b1925 in Melbourne, Victoria) - they were separated by 1949 (Dorothy was living in Melbourne and working as a Factory Hand and Frederick was a Process Worker). Both remarried in 1950 - Frederick to Catherine (Kate) Barker. Frederick and Kate settled in Sunshine in Melbourne, where Frederick was a Process Worker. Kate died in 1987 and Frederick in 2004.