Lieutenant-Colonel M.K. Greene
Royal Canadian Regiment

Now, after only two months of being commanded by Murray Green [sic], it had slipped badly and discipline was suffering. Green did not appear to be interested in the welfare of the men. I told the General that, according to reports from the Regiment, Murray Green went up to London almost every night, leaving his driver outside in the army station wagon during the air raids, and did not leave London until about 2:00 am.

(Kitching, Mud and Green Fields, 107)

Born in Montreal on 17 February 1888, Murray Kirk Greene was an RMC graduate, First World War veteran, and former commanding officer of the RCR from 1935 to 1938. He had been commissioned in the Permanent Force in 1910 and served as a staff officer during the war. He relinquished command of the RCR to Lieutenant-Colonel K.M. Holloway on appointment to Military District No. 13. In this position he organized mobilization efforts in Alberta at the start of the Second World War.

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