Corporal F Crawley – enquiry

Kindest greetings to you from the United States.  I am reaching out to your group as I am helping a friend from Eau Claire, Wisconsin with finding out more information about a Corporal F. Crawley, RAF, who visited this community during WW2 in March 1944.

Mr. Crawley was from Merthyr Tydfil or perhaps the local vicinity.   We believe his last name may have been Crowley or Crowle or another spelling.

Would anyone locally be able to help us?  We have tried various British genealogy websites but there are multiple possibilities as we do not know what his first name was, only that it is said to start with “F”.

I attach an article from a local industrial newspaper that tells of the visit of three RAF personnel, including Corp. Crawley, who were en route on leave to Chicago from Carberry training base in western Canada; they instead decided to stop in Wisconsin rather than continue to Chicago.

Would someone locally possibly be able to recognize this man or know of the family in question?    The captions indicate he is the RAF man on the left of the photos.

We certainly appreciate any assistance you may be able to provide and thank you very much for your kind attention and time.

With kindest regards,

Ramona M. Bartos

Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina