100 Squadron Hero

Does nyone know of F/Sgt CR Green of 100 Squadron who won the CGM for throwing his Beaufort into a melee with about 10 japanese aircraft attacking a merchant ship, and driving them off? Date unknown. Does anyone know the Codes and "A" number of his Beaufort?

Millsy2

Hi Millsy2

You could have the labourious time and flick through 467 pages of the ORB at the NAA: http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx

Title
RAAF Unit History sheets (Form A50) [Operations Record Book - Forms A50 and A51] Number 100 Squadron Mar 42 - Aug 46
Series number
A9186 Control symbol
123 Contents date range
1942 - 1946

Access status
Open Location
Canberra Barcode
13590

Once you located a date and serial, I might be able to improve on the Squadron code aspect. I've a few

Best
Gordy

I just can't leave a mystery alone hey. Had a quick trawl

Circa Page 150 circa June 1943 he's listed,..went back to Decemebr 1942

Flew A9-32/75/181/198/200/227/203 QH-R/206/210 QH-D/187/216 QH-V

Up to July 43 and it seems he's left by then,...Page 182

So somewhere between 150 and 182.

Must leave the fun for you now ;)



Gordy :blink:

According to Song of the Beaufort, Clarence Richard Green earned the CGM for attacking 3 Japanese fighters who were strafing survivors from a sinking ship (p 265). No details of date or serial given in book. Green served with 7 Sqn before joining 100 Sqn and then moving on to 8 Sqn.

WW2 nominal roll
Name GREEN, CLARENCE REGINALD
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number 416212
Date of Birth 23 Apr 1918
Place of Birth TWEEDVALE, SA
Date of Enlistment 24 Apr 1941
Locality on Enlistment Unknown
Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE
Next of Kin GREEN, BERYL
Date of Discharge 1 Jul 1947
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Posting at Discharge 1 AIRCRAFT DEPOT
WW2 Honours and Gallantry Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
Prisoner of War No

AWM
Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
Service Number
416212
Service
RAAF
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Unit
100 Sqn RAAF
Conflict
Second World War
Date of London Gazette
10 March 1944, page 1167, position 12
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
16 March 1944, page 649, position 21
More information about a Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Wikipedia)
Mention in Despatches
Service Number
416212
Service
RAAF
Rank
Flying Officer
Unit
RAAF
Conflict
Second World War
Date of London Gazette
4 May 1945, page 2353, position 43
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
11 May 1945, page 1083, position 63

Jan

According to Song of the Beaufort, Clarence Richard Green earned the CGM for attacking 3 Japanese fighters who were strafing survivors from a sinking ship (p 265). No details of date or serial given in book. Green served with 7 Sqn before joining 100 Sqn and then moving on to 8 Sqn.

WW2 nominal roll
Name GREEN, CLARENCE REGINALD
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number 416212
Date of Birth 23 Apr 1918
Place of Birth TWEEDVALE, SA
Date of Enlistment 24 Apr 1941
Locality on Enlistment Unknown
Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE
Next of Kin GREEN, BERYL
Date of Discharge 1 Jul 1947
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Posting at Discharge 1 AIRCRAFT DEPOT
WW2 Honours and Gallantry Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
Prisoner of War No

AWM
Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
Service Number
416212
Service
RAAF
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Unit
100 Sqn RAAF
Conflict
Second World War
Date of London Gazette
10 March 1944, page 1167, position 12
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
16 March 1944, page 649, position 21
More information about a Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Wikipedia)
Mention in Despatches
Service Number
416212
Service
RAAF
Rank
Flying Officer
Unit
RAAF
Conflict
Second World War
Date of London Gazette
4 May 1945, page 2353, position 43
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
11 May 1945, page 1083, position 63

Jan

A9-181 incident took place near Buna on 8 Mar 1943. Ship involved was the
SS Jacob, part of a convoy carrying supplies to the troops at Buna. Aircraft was some distance ahead of the Jacob when nine enemy bombers, escorted by 13 fighters attacked the convoy to score direct hits on the ship. Incident reported to base but while the escorting corvette began to pick up survivors from the sinking ship, 3 enemy fighters came down to strafe the merchant seamen survivors. Green banked steeply to attack them and the fighters broke off the strafing. He then patrolled between the fighters and the survivors until the enemy left the scene. Song of the Beauforts , p 78

Jan

Thanks Jan,

glad I listed A9-181 eh!

One without Codes though.

Cheers

Gordy :D

Yeah, it's gets a bit messy as there are 2 Greens that were with 100 Sqn! This guy is referred to as Reg Green in the book, Knew the incident occurred before A9-225's demise but Song of the Beauforts does not have a good index so it was a matter of going through the book manually. Guess they could have done with a librarian's help on this ;)

Ah I remember the ORB when researching Geoff and the boys <_<

Jan

This post has been edited by jamboree on Feb 26 2008, 10:23 AM