AUSTRALIAN GENERAL KILLED
(Rec. 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Mar. 20. After a four-day search in ■ thick jungle country, a wrecked service plane has been found containing th« dead bodies of three Australian Army officers and an R.A-A.F. sergeant pilot. The patrols also Hound another high Army officer wandering in the jungle seriously ill, together with a second R.A.A.F. man. Those killed included Brigadier J. W, Crawford, D.5.0., who was acting commander at Tobruk during the absence of Lieut.-General Sir Leslie iMprshead. He was mentioned in*dlt> patches on three occasions. ; The plane was wrecked in the northern operational- area. On the fourth day the searcher* found Lieut.-Colonel P. H. Cardal* wandering in the jungle. He was too ill to be moved and an emergency hos» pital was set up on the spot until hi could be moved by stretcher.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 67, 20 March 1943, Page 5
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