[1] He was born at Coleshill, Warwickshire and died in the fighting of the First World War at Laventie and Richebourg, France.
[2] Crawford was a tall lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
He played second eleven cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1909 and 1910, he was picked for Warwickshire, for whom he had a birth qualification, for the match against the Indians in 1911 and, having made an unbeaten 24 in his only innings, batting at No 10, he took six second-innings wickets for just 36 runs, which proved to be the best bowling return of his brief career.
[1] In 1912, instead of playing for Warwickshire, Crawford turned out instead in around half of Nottinghamshire's games – he was qualified for the county through residence.
Crawford's father was a former army medical doctor who settled at Skegby, Nottinghamshire.