Bernard George GREEN

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GREEN, Bernard George

Service Numbers:	V55690, 436617
Enlisted:	15 August 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	6 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 10 November 1917
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	St Kevin’s Catholic Boys’ College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Commercial Traveller
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26 May 2007, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Altona Memorial Park, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

15 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V55690, 6 Infantry Battalion AMF
15 Feb 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V55690, 6 Infantry Battalion AMF
20 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 436617
6 Feb 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 436617

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flight Sergeant Bernard George Green (Service No:436617) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V55690) with 6th Battalion from 15 August 1940 to 15 February 1943, when he Discharged to enlist in the RAAF in Perth, WA. Starting as an Aircraftman II on 20 February 1943 at 4 RD Busselton, by 26 August 1944 he was an Airman Pilot attached to RAAF HQ Melbourne then RAAF Station Canberra, and in January 1945 with 2RPP at 54 Mile in the Northern Territory. Flight Sergeant Green then served with No 22 Squadron in Hughes and Balikapan before Discharge on 6 February 1946.

Born in 1917 in Melbourne Victoria, Bernard was the youngest of seven children of John Green (b1871 at Mt Moliagul nr Tarngulla, Victoria) and Mary Magdalene Hall (b1890 in Melbourne, Victoria). John (a Hairdresser) and Mary married in 1905 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and John was a Hairdresser - he served in WWI. John died in 1920. Mary was committed to Larundel mental Asylum in the mid 1900s, under the care of the Master in Lunacy Victoria, and the children were Wards of the State.

Bernard was a Commercial Traveller in Melbourne where, in 1941 he married Dulcie Muriel Huggins (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria). Following his service in WWII, Bernard and Dulcie settled in Melbourne where they both initially worked as Confectioners, and from the 1950s Bernard was a Confectioner and Attendant. Dulcie died in 1991 and Bernard in 2007.

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