Frank Linke-Crawford, ranked fourth on the list of Austro-Hungarian aces, was born on 18 August 1893 at Krakau, and was the son of Major Adalbert Linke and his English-born wife. Lucy Crawford. In 1910, Linke-Crawford entered the military academy at Wiener-Neustadt, and in 1913 graduated as a Leutnant before being posted to Dragoon Regiment Nr 6. At the outbreak of World War 1 he was in the 1st Eskadron (troop) of this cavalry regiment, which served on the Eastern Front, and in November 1914 was appointed commander of the regimental Infanterie Eskadron (infantry troop). Between October 1914 and October 1915 Linke-Crawford continued to rise in his regiment and received several decorations, but was hospitalised on several occasions with dysentery and malaria . http://www.dawnpatroluk.co.uk/pilotlc.htm Linke-Crawford, commanding officer of Flik 60J at Feltre is captured by the camera in front of the Phonix D I of Oberleutnant Jansky (centre) and Aviatik D I fighters (Bruce Robertson)
http://www.dawnpatroluk.co.uk/pilotlc.htm Very evident in this photograph of the Lohner-built Aviatik D I fighter (115.20), flown by Flik 60J when Linke-Crawford was the unit's commanding officer, is the lozenge type of camouflage. The D I was notorious for its tendency toward structural failure in the air (Bruce Robertson)
