Military Service Recognition Book

179 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GRAY, Victor A. “Vic” Vic was born on May 20, 1913 in Leith, Scotland. He served in the Merchant Navy on M. V. Clifton Hall and made 45 Trans-Atlantic journeys, including the M. V. Empire Seal. After being torpedoed off Halifax and adrift for three days, he joined the Royal Navy and served on HMS Arbiter as a Sub-Lieutenant. He was assigned to organize landing craft for the invasion of Japan with the war ended. During his naval service, he sailed the Atlantic, African waters and in the Mediterranean. Vic was a member of Harry Brown VC Legion Branch 497 before he passed away on February 14, 1998. GREEN, Ernest Robert Ernest was born in Devonport, Devon, England on May 15, 1932. He enlisted in the British Army Active Service Regular Force on April 6, 1951 and served with 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards in England, Egypt and Canal Zone. He was an NCO Range Finder with the Machine Gun Platoon and participated in the Trooping the Colour for the Queen in 1954. He was a Reservist and received the Service Medal. Ernest was with the City of London Police in England. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Kincardine Branch 183. Ernest passed away on May 25, 2015. GREEN, Carleton Carroll Carleton was born in Parkhill, Ontario on June 20, 1888. He was already a member of the 97th Battalion when he signed up with the Army for overseas duty on June 15, 1915. Happily married to Mabel Green, he had been working in Haileybury, Ontario as a newspaperman. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant and sailed to Britain on the SSLaplandon November 27 of that year. As a member of the 13th Battalion (The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, The Black Watch), Carleton was given a promotion to Temporary Captain on August 5, 1916. That fall, his battalion was involved in heavy fighting near the Kenora and Regina trenches near Courcelette, France. On September 26, 1916, Captain Carleton Green was killed when a German shell hit the roof of the underground headquarters of the 13th Battalion. The interior of the bunker was destroyed by a gasoline-fueled fireball. With one shell, the Germans killed the battalion commander and ten other headquarters staff, including Captain Green; 33 other soldiers were wounded, most of them burned in the fireball. Captain Green, aged 28, is buried at Albert Communal Cemetery, 28 kilometers northeast of Amiens, France. He rests at Plot I, Row P, grave 26.

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