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Cst. Green was originally from Rencontre West, Newfoundland. He was in the Canadian Navy from 1941-1945. At the time of his death he was posted at the Penticton Detachment, British Columbia. He died in an airplane accident while in the performance of duty along the East Shore of Skaha Lake, British Columbia. There is a plaque in the RCMP chapel at Depot in memory of the members who perished in this accident. Cst. Green was married to Shirley and they had two children. Constable Richard William Green
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable William Green served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable William Green.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Constable Richard William Green is one of 1 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In ON, 266 of 364 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 73.1% of this state's fallen. That is 73.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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Incident Location
Shirley, BC.
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