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John Wilson Crawford : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Wilson Crawford
Brigadier John Wilson Crawford DSO, ED (8 July 1899 – 7 March 1943) served in the Australian Army during the Second World War. Prior to the war, he was a solicitor but also served in the Citizen Military Forces. Called up to the army following the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, he commanded 2/17th Battalion during the Siege of Tobruk. From April 1942, he commanded 11th Brigade and York Force. He was killed in an aircraft crash near Cairns on 7 March 1943. ==Early life== Crawford was born on 8 July 1899 in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, to Irish immigrants. He had an interest in the military from an early age, joining his school's cadet unit and later, the Sydney University Scouts. After completing his university education, he qualified as a solicitor. During the Depression he was associated with the Old Guard, a paramilitary group organized in order to prevent a hypothesized socialist revolution. Crawford was group clerk for quota 1 headquarters of the Old Guard's Pacific Highway nucleus. He was active in the Citizen Military Forces and by 1933, was in command of the Sydney University Regiment, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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