Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
---|---|---|---|
The Transport Office | Motor Transport Officer | 1942 | 1942 |
De Cymru | Intelligence Officer | 02 Jul 1940 | 1941 |
South Wales | Intelligence Officer | 02 Jul 1940 | 1941 |
Journalist
Journalist Staff, BBC 1945-75
Foreign Correspondent, New York 1959-63,
Foreign News Editor 1963-67,
Editor of News and Current Affairs 1967-71,
Chief Assistant to the Director-General 1971-75.
Chairman of Trustees, Visnews 1976-86.
Auxiliary Units 1940-44
2 July 1940 - Joined Auxiliary Units
1940-1941 - Monmouth, Pembroke and Carmarthen Intelligence Officer
May-July 1942 - Motor Transport Officer, Coleshill
5 July 1944 - Transferred to Intelligence Corps
December 1944 to June 1945 - GSO2 (Intelligence) 5 Corps HQ Italy.
13 December 1945 - Awarded MBE for work in Italy.
November 1945 - Leaves Army
John married Constance Griffiths 15 July 1933 in Hampstead.
He was awarded a CBE in 1972
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38609/supplement/2345/data.pdf
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7382702
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37386/supplement/6062/data.pdf
https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_C02.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-crawley-6105931.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-crawley-5b8q2pzl83z
Auxiliary Units Telephone number list August 1940, CART Archive