CRISP, Walter Jack
| Service Numbers: | NX7354, 439279 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 3 Air Observers School Port Pirie |
| Born: | Taree, New South Wales, Australia, 1 November 1920 |
| Home Town: | Taree, Greater Taree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Taree Public School and Taree High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Draftsman and Articled Surveyor |
| Died: | Natural causes, New South Wales, Australia, 15 September 2001, aged 80 years |
| Cemetery: |
Dawson River Cemetery, New South Wales Portion Anglican N7 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX7354 | |
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| 10 Jun 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX7354 | |
| 11 Jun 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 439279 | |
| 14 Nov 1943: | Transferred Royal Canadian Air Force (WW2), Air Observers Schools , Winnipeg, Canada | |
| 29 Apr 1945: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, No. 2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 3 Air Observers School Port Pirie | |
| 13 Sep 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 439279 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Walter Jack Crisp was born at Taree, New South Wales in 1920, one of five children to Richard Henry Crisp and his wife Edith. His parents and two older siblings had moved from Sydney to Taree shortly before his birth, were his father operated a dental practice.
Always known as Jack, he was raised and educated at Taree were he developed a love of surfing and was a long standing member of the Black Head Surf Life Saving Club - becoming Patron in later years.
Jack Crisp began training as a draftsman and surveyor with the Lands Department in Sydney shortly before World War II. Enlisting in the Army in 1941 he was shipped to the Middle East on the liner the Queen Mary with the Australian Railway Survey Company. There he carried out survey and design of an important rail line in southern Lebanon.
Upon his return to Australia in 1943, Jack married Mary McPherson at Chatswood. He then transferred to the RAAF as a navigator and was sent to Canada with the Empire Training Scheme rising to the rank of Flying Officer. After his discharge in 1945 Jack worked in Sydney, Taree and Wagga Wagga before joining high profile surveyor, Cephas Scott in partnership at Maitland in 1950. The firm was know as Cephas N Scott & Crisp - later as Scott Crisp Surveyors.
Jack was made a Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors in 1981.
His wife Mary passed away in 1995 and Jack died in 2001.
Reference: https://www.scdwsurveying.com.au/history
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