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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hercules Green DSO (26 December 1919 – 1 November 1950) was the youngest Australian Army infantry battalion commander during World War II. He went on to command the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), during the Korean War, where he died of wounds. He remains the only commanding officer of a battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment to die on active service. Green joined the part-time Militia in 1936, and prior to the outbreak of World War II had been commissioned as a lieutenant. He volunteered for overseas service soon after the war began in September 1939, and served in the Middle East and the Battle of Greece with the 2/2nd Battalion. After the action at Pineios Gorge on 18 April 1941, Green became separated from the main body of the battalion, and made his way through Turkey to Palestine, to rejoin the reformed 2/2nd Battalion. The 2/2nd Battalion returned to Australia in August 1942 via Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), to fight the Japanese.
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26 December 1919 Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
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1 November 1950 (aged 30) Anju, North Korea
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