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Harry Crank

British diver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ93961165 ↗
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Harry Crank (November 1890 – 22 October 1917) was a British diver. He competed in the men's 3 metre springboard event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during the First World War.

Personal life

Crank served as a second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers during the First World War. He was killed in action on 22 October 1917 in Belgium. His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harry Crank” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.