A white index card containing the name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph.
Card also contains a red cross.
Kitchener Public Library - Soldier Information Card Collection - World War One
Scope and Content
A white index card containing the name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph.
Card also contains a red cross.
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Kitchener Public Library
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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
Transcription
Green, Carleton Carroll
Captain.
Enlisted with the Algonquin Rangers (97th Regiment), in December 1914.
Transferred to 37th Battalion and to 13th Montreal Highlanders.
Presbyterian.
Born at Parkhill, Ontario June 20, 1888, educated at Galt Collegiate Institute.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler Green of Kitchener, Ontario.
He married Mabel McKinnon of Haileybury, Ontario and has two children.
He was a newspaper man of the North Country, being mining editor of the Cobalt Daily Nugget.
He went overseas with 37th Battalion in 1915 and was in the trenches early in 1916.
He was killed in action at Courcelette September 26, 1916 and buried with his major and the Colonel of his battalion with full military honors.