Wing Commander (Dizzy) Crawford

Place Asia: Burma
Accession Number ART24313
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 27.4 x 38.3 cm edge folded in places
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made Burma
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This sketch of Wing Commander Crawford, a Canadian and Commanding Officer of 194 Transport Squadron, Royal Air Force, was made shortly before he was killed when his aircraft crashed into a hill on Ramree Island in a blinding storm in June 1945. Two Australian air crew were also killed in the incident, along with one British member of the RAF. Crawford is seen in his tub of well water outside his tent, bathing as he shaves, his shaving mirror balanced on his bent knee.