Derek Mollison

Derek Mollison
Personal information
Full name	Crawford Mollison
Date of birth	(1901-10-22)22 October 1901
Date of death
Place of death	Rockhampton, Central Queensland
Original team(s)	Melbourne Grammar
Height/Weight	189 cm / 81 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1923–1928	Melbourne	66 (30)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1924–1925	Victoria	4 (-)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1928 season. 2 State and international statistics correct as of 1925.

Crawford "Derek" Mollison (22 October 1901 – 19 December 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A Victorian representative, he retired at a young age to pursue a business career. He later joined the Australian army.

On 19 December 1943, Mollison was one of 31 people on board a C47 aircraft which crashed north of Rockhampton in Central Queensland. The plane, which was flying from Townsville to Brisbane, had been carrying 20 US Armed Services personnel, two non-combatants, as well as Mollison and seven others members of the Australian Defence force. There were no survivors.

See also

• List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

External links

• Derek Mollison's statistics from AFL Tables