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Lt.-Col. Murray Kirk Greene

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - M.K. Greene

Lieut. M.K. Greene (1912)

Lieut. M.K. Greene (1912)

Major M.K. Greene (1928)

Major M.K. Greene (1928)

Major & Brevet Lt.-Col. M.K. Greene (1933)

Major & Brevet Lt.-Col. M.K. Greene (1933)

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Departure of Major Greene (from "A" Company, 1927)

The Connecting File, Vol VI, No. 4, December, 1927

It was with real regret that "A" Company bade good-bye to Major and Mrs M.K. Greene on their departure to London on 27th September, 1927.

Major Green took over "A" Company the 1st April, 1925, and during his two and a half years with us, his work to improve us both on parade and in the field of sport and the keen and sympathetic interest displayed by both Mrs Greene and himself in all our doings have won our admiration and respect.

Prior to their departure Mrs Greene was presented with a motoring rug, a gift from the Company.

The Company also paraded in strength to the station where a noisy farewell was tended before the train pulled out.

The sincerest good wishes of all ranks of "A" Company follow Major and Mrs Greene to London.

The Connecting File, Vol XVII, No. 4, December, 1938

On October 21st, 1938, command of The Royal Canadian Regiment was handed over by Lieut.-Col. M.K. Greene to Lieut.-Col. K.M. Holloway, on the latter's return from the Senior Officers' School, at Sheerness. It is our sincere desire, through the medium of the "Connecting File" to welcome Lieut.-Col. Holloway as he assumes his new duties, and to bid "au revoir" to Lieut.-Col. Greene, on his departure from the Regiment to the appointment of A.A. & Q.M.G., at Calgary.

The Royal Canadian Regiment; Volume Two, 1933-1966

Lt.-Col. M. K. Greene

He was appointed to The Regiment on graduation from Royal Military College in 1910. He went overseas in 1914 as Orderly Officer of 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. He was wounded in the heavy fighting at Ypres in the spring of 1915 and obtained a Mention in Despatches. In 1919 he was the first commander of D Company, quartered in Montreal. He commanded The Regiment in 1927 in the dedication of the Arlington Cemetery in Washington. After a series of staff appointments he took command of The Regiment in 1935, relinquishing it to Lt.-Col. M.K. Holloway in 1938. During the Second World War he held a number of staff appointments in Britain from one of which he was recalled in November 1940 to take command of The Regiment anew. On July 10th 1941 he received another staff posting. He retired at the end of the war with the rank of Colonel. He died in England on December 15th 1956.

Date of Birth - 17 Feb 1888

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