Chetwode George Green Crawley
Lt. Col. Chetwode Crawley, O.B.E., was a Wireless Officer before and during the First World War. He then pursued a career in the Wireless Telegraph Section of the General Post Office during the period between the wars. He was also the author of a handful of technical books and articles written for the general reader.
Born: 14th July 1880.
Educated at Dublin University and at the Royal Navy College, Greenwich.
Employed in Wireless Telegraphy in the Royal Navy, 1903 to 1913, as Experimental, Instructional, and Fleet Wireless Officer. In 1908, he was Lieutenant (Royal Marines Artillery) on the battleship H.M.S. Queen in 1908[1]
Elected member of the Royal Geographical Society, December 18 1905.[2]
Deputy Inspector of Wireless Telegraphy in the Post Office, 1913.
Returned to the Naval Wireless service for the period of the war. Served in the Grand Fleet, in command of the R.N.V.R. Wireless School, at the Admiralty, and supervised the erection and working of various Naval stations abroad. Officer of Orders. of Aviz and Liakat.
Resumed his duties in the Post Office in 1919.
1921-1922: Member of the Wireless Telegraphy Commission. Further to the Parliamentary Imperial Wireless Committee of 1919/1920 (the "Norman" Committee), the commission was set up by the Cabinet to provide detailed technical recommendations for the Imperial Wireless chain.[3]
Inspector, Wireless Telegraph Section, General Post Office.
Member Institute of Electrical Engineers (M.I.E.E.)
Author of Wireless: popular and concise (1922); From Telegraphy to Television. The story of electrical communications (1931); and The Ship-Shore Wireless Service. (Post Office Green Papers. no. 12.) (1935) together with articles in various periodicals.
Appointed OBE in the Coronation honours list, 11th May 1937. [4]