Charles Wallace Crawford (183801)
Chalres Wallace Crawford (183801) served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

Charles was posted to 78 Squadron piloting Halifax's.

On the night of 6 October 1944 Charles took off on a raid against a synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer. During the raid the Halifax was lost, it was one of three 78 Sqn Halifax's to be lost that night.

Halifax B Mk III MZ310 EY-U

Flying Officer Charles Wallace Crawford is buried at the Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery.


Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commision
Chris Charland
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