William was a Boy 1st Class on board HMS Hood.
On 24 May 1941 HMS Hood was sunk by gunfire from the German pocket battleship Bismark. A shell penetrated the upper deck armour and detonated a stack of ammunition causing an explosion which sank HMS Hood instantly. William was lost in the sinking.
Boy 1st Class William MacFarlane Crawford is commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 51, column 3.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
