Last Post - Sergeant Robert Clarke Green

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers

In Memory of
Sergeant ROBERT CLARKE GREEN

R/197000, Royal Canadian Air Force
who died age 21
on 23 August 1944
Son of Robert James Green and Ella Mae Green,

of Elbow, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Remembered with honour
BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

source: http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=2666893

The image below from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission states:

"Son of M. and R. J.Green, Elbow, Saskatchewan, Canada

Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty"

Sergeant Robert Clarke Green, a young man from Elbow, Saskatchewan trained as an Air Gunner and attended No. 3 B&G school with many of the aircrew from this site. He graduated from Course 72 on March 9, 1944. Click here to see the Graduation program with his name mentioned.

Upon Graduation, Sergeant Green was eventually posted overseas and trained on Wellington's at #24 OTU Honeybourne, again with many aircrew from this site.

Click here to see images from OTU Honeybourne and the Wellingtons flown, affectionately known as 'Wimpys'.

Wellington aircraft #MK 520 crashed near the Norne Farm, Stuntney, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Killed were:

Sgt. William Stocks Paton (N)

Sgt Robert Clarke Green (AG)

Sgt. A.D. Daniels

FS. J.L. Murray

F/O J.M. Rinahan

Robert Clarke Green is the son of Robert James Green and Ella Mae Green of Elbow, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery in section 43.E.1.

Click here to read the ""They Shall Grow Not Old" entry for Sergeant Robert Clarke Green.

The image at left shows the certificate issued in Honour of Sgt Robert Clarke Green by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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