CRAWFURD, Lt Col Charles Hamilton Payne (1907-1943)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Crawfurd
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: CRAWFURD, Lt Col Charles Hamilton Payne (1907-1943)
Date(s)	: 1940-1943
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Crawfurd | Charles Hamilton Payne | 1907-1943 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1907; educated at Fonthill, East Grinstead, Sussex, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1927; service with 19 Bde Royal Artillery, British Army of Rhine, Germany, 1927-1929; Aide de Camp to Lt Gen Sir William Thwaites, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1929; Lt, 1930; served with 19 Field Bde, Royal Artillery, 1930-1934; Capt, 1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1943; served in Belgium and France and commanded 29 Battery, 19 Field Regt Royal Artillery, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1939-1940; temporary Maj, 1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, Operation DYNAMO, Jun 1940; Lt Col, 1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, 1 Airborne Div, 1942; killed in action during Operation FUSTIAN, the glider assault on the Ponte Grande bridge by 1 Air Landing Bde, 1 Airborne Div, Sicily, Jul 1943.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript copy of account of Crawfurd's service with 29 Battery, 19 Field Regt Royal Artillery, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Div during Operation DYNAMO, the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk, France, 1-3 Jun 1940. Also, copy of Crawfurd's obituary from The Times, Aug 1943, and a printed obituary by Col Robert Townsend Hammick, dated 19 Aug 1943, Crawfurd's Commanding Officer, 19 Field Bde, Royal Artillery, 1930-1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1998.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 1999