Ordinary Seaman Bernard Alfred Crawford served on board the base and accommodation vessel HMS Anking.
On the 4 March 1942 HMS Anking and a number of other ships were sunk by naval gunfire from the Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruisers Maya, Takao and Atago.
Ordinary Seaman Bernard Alfred Crawford dies on 19 March 1942, possibly from wounds, and is commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 65 column 2.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
British and Australian warship losses in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-42.
