Patrick Crawford
| Patrick Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 October 1933 London |
| Died | 21 February 2009 (aged 75) Holy Cross Hospital Haslemere |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
British Army → Royal Army Medical Corps |
| Years of service | 1960-1993 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Unit | 7th Gurkha Rifles |
| Battles/wars | Indonesian Confrontation |
| Awards | George Medal |
Major-General Ian Patrick Crawford GM, MRCS (11 October 1933 - 21 February 2009) was a British Army Medical Doctor and expert on preventive medicine who was awarded the George Medal for saving the life of a Gurkha officer following a helicopter crash in the Borneo Jungle during the Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation in April 1964.
Crawford was born in London, the son of Donald and Florence Crawford. He was educated at Chatham House and St Thomas' Hospital, where he qualified as MRCS and as LRCP.
He was a house-surgeon, casualty and orthopedist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1959-1960 until he began National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He extended his National Service into a regular commission, before seeing service in Malaysia and Borneo. He then began to focus on preventive medicine and Malaria. From 1968-1972 he was on the staff of the British Military hospital, Singapore, was an instructor at the RAMC training centre and a deputy assistant director of Army health in the Ministry of Defence. In 1972, he was offered an exchange assignment with the Australian Army, where he had a visiting lectureship at Queensland University in Brisbane. He returned to England in 1978 where he worked in the Army Medical Directorate before going to Germany as director of army health at 1st British Corps, where he served with many NATO medical officers. During this period he conducted studies into the effects of sleep deprivation, extremes of cold and heat and improving army uniforms. In 1981 he served as the Parkes Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Royal Army Medical College and he served in the Defence Medical Services directorate from 1984–1986, after which he was seconded to the Saudi Arabian National Guard from 1986. From 1989 to 1993, he served as Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College.
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