PILOT-OFFICER KILLED
FORMER CHRISTCHURCH BOY [ Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 14. Pilot-Officer George Gordon Crawford, only son of Mrs. A. Crawford, Sherbourne Street, St. Albans, is reported killed in an aircraft accident in England. Pilot-Officer Crawford was born in Christchurch in 1917. When his parents went to live in Hamilton he spent four years at the Hamilton Boy’s High School, but later had a further two years’ education at the Christchurch Boy’s High School. After leaving school he served as an aircraftsman in the R.N.Z.A.F. at Wigram for eight months before leaving for England in November, 1938, to take up a short service commission with the R.A.F.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 191, 15 August 1940, Page 6
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