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P/O Bernard Green MC Hampden L4087
Hi guys
P/O Bernard Green, a WWI veteran with the MC, was A/G aboard Hampden L4087 when it was shot down off Denmark on 20 July 1940. Green survived to become a POW. What was his age and circumstances of his MC? Above details taken from Air War over Denmark website. Cheers Brian |
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Re: P/O Bernard Green MC Hampden L4087
I have seen some suggestions that he was in the Ox & Bucks Light infantry but strangely when looking up MC holders on Wiki his name doesn't show!
BTW his grandson wrote this book about him thought it has been criticised in a few reviews Great War to Great Escape: The Two Wars of Flight Lieutenant Bernard 'Pop' Green MC [Hardcover]
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Re: P/O Bernard Green MC Hampden L4087
Brian,
You will find notification of Green's Military Cross, here: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...upplement/6466 See also: p.6462 for the initial entry. There is also an informative entry in the following: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 1939-40 2nd Edition. Chorley,W.R. Hersham:Classic Publications,2013. p.170. Col. |
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Re: P/O Bernard Green MC Hampden L4087
See
http://www.militarian.com/threads/gr...-auction.5339/ he was "57 in 1944" so he was born around 1887 Bernard, who was shot down off Denmark in 1940, died in 1971 aged 84. = 1887 "Bernard Green was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire on 23rd December 1887." Can't get any more accurate than that... |
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Re: P/O Bernard Green MC Hampden L4087
Thanks guys
I have ordered a copy of the mentioned book. Cheers Brian |
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