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John Neilson Crawford fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1941-1945.

Reference:

R2037-0-6-E, MG30-E213

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103047

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John Neilson Crawford fonds
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Date(s):

1941-1945.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of monthly returns and nominal rolls, 1941-1942; roll of dead and missing, 1942-1945; and rolls of forced labour drafts, 1943-1944; relating to sick and wounded Canadian prisoners of war in North Point camp, Hong Kong.

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Crawford, John Nielson, b. 1906
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Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Canada. Armée canadienne. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Crawford, John Nielson, b. 1906 : Brigadier John Neilson Crawford, was born in Winnipeg and educated at the University of Manitoba and in New York. He specialized in pediatrics and practised in Winnipeg, 1932-1939. As a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (Non-Permanent), he served as Medical Officer for the 10th Machine Gun Battalion, Winnipeg Grenadiers, 1933-1939. Crawford was placed on active service as a captain and accompanied the Grenadiers to Jamaica as Medical Officer in 1940 and 1941. This Unit formed part of "C" Force sent to Hong Kong in 1941, with Major Crawford as its Senior Medical Officer.

He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese, 1941-1945. Following the war, Crawford received a number of senior military medical appointments, until his retirement from the Army in 1956. He then joined the Department of Veterans' Affairs and in 1965, he became Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare. He retired in 1970.

See: Canadian Who's Who, 1980, p. 212.

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General note:

Received in 1974, from J.N. Crawford through the Canadian War Museum.
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Prisoners of war Canada

Prisonniers de guerre Canada

Prisoners of war Japan

Prisonniers de guerre Japon

World War, 1939-1945 Canada

Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Canada
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Private

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MG30-E213
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http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000492.pdf

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[Consultation18 Restricted]

Volume [MG30 E 213] 1

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

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