Full name Crawford Mollison | Height/Weight 189 cm / 81 kg Name Derek Mollison | |
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Date of birth (1901-10-22)22 October 1901 Date of death 19 December 1943(1943-12-19) (aged 42) Place of death Rockhampton, Central Queensland | ||
Original team(s) Melbourne Grammar | ||
Crawford "Derek" Mollison (22 October 1901 – 19 December 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A Victorian representative, he retired at a young age to pursue a business career. He later joined the Australian army.
On 19 December 1943, Mollison was one of 31 people on board a C47 aircraft which crashed north of Rockhampton in Central Queensland. The plane, which was flying from Townsville to Brisbane, had been carrying 20 US Armed Services personnel, two non-combatants, as well as Mollison and seven others members of the Australian Defence force. There were no survivors.
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