Francis Christopher Mccausland (Mac) CRISP

CRISP, Francis Christopher Mccausland

Service Number: V361376
Enlisted: 25 May 1942
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 20th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born: Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 8 January 1909
Home Town: Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Newspaper Proprietor and Journalist
Died: Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 2 September 1973, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Altona Memorial Park, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

25 May 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V361376, 20th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
1 Oct 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V361376, 20th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Francis Christopher McCausland Crisp (Service No:V361376) enlisted in the ACMF on 25 May 1942. He was attached to 20 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps when he was Discharged on 1 October 1945.

Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria in 1909, Mac was the eldest of three children of Anthony George Crisp (b1873 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) and Harriet Theodosia Crook (b1885 in St Arnaud, Victoria). Anthony (a Printer) and Harriet married in 1907 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria where they settled and raised their family.

Mac worked as a Journalist and in 1933 he married Ivy Robina May Peacock (b1905 in Daylsford, Victoria) - Ivy was working in Melbourne as a Telephonist). Mac and Ivy settled in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria where Mac was a Journalist and Newspaper Proprietor. Ivy died in 1970 and Mac in 1973.

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