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GREEN, Harold Lindsay
| Service Number: | 972A |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1916, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
| Born: | Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia, 7 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic |
| Died: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 5 July 1975, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Carinya Gardens Cemetery, Mount Gambier, South Australia Grave Location: Section Cypress Garden, Row Y, Plot 1. |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 972A, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 17 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 972A, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Involvement 972A, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 972A, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, RMS Omrah, Melbourne | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Embarked 972A, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, RMS Omrah, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
972a Harold Lindsay GREEN was born in Adelaide on 7 April 1893. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 20 January 1908 by his father, John Green, a mason, of Church Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 1 August 1908.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 24 October 1916 (23, motor mechanic, single, Church of England) naming his mother, Mrs Emma Green of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin, having previously been rejected because of “defective chest”. He completed a course at the signal school in December 1916 before embarking from Melbourne on the ‘Omrah’ on 17 January 1917 and disembarked at Plymouth in England on 27 March 1917. He was attached to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) Depot at Perham Downs and then to 71 Squadron AFC at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.
He was sent overseas to France on 16 December 1917. From 1 January 1918 his squadron was designated 4th Squadron AFC. He was sent back to England in March 1919 and left England on the ‘Kaiser-I-Hind’ on 6 May 1919 for return to Australia, disembarking on 14 June and being discharged on 22 July.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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