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Staff Sergeant Major Cecil Green was born on September 6, 1896 in Trinity, Newfoundland to John and Mary Ann (Fowlow) Green. His service number in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was 984 and he received the Meritorious Service Medal for his service to his Country.

Cecil also had a brother, Harvey Green (#2924) who served in the Regiment and a sister, Elizabeth (Bess) Rixon Carnell Green who served as a nurse in the First World War to the United States Nursing Corps.

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Nurse Elizabeth Rixon Carnell Green
1916
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Elizabeth (Bess) Rixon Carnell Green was born on April 3,1891 in Trinity to John and Mary Ann (Fowlow) Green. She was educated at Bishop Spencer College in St. John's and then attended the Boston City Hospital where she graduated with her Degree in Nursing in 1916. In 1917 she was a nurse in Halfiax, Nova Scotia where she administered her skills during the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. In 1918 she was a Nurse in the American Nursing Corp at the American Military Hospital, Tours, France. She died at the age of 96 on June 7, 1987 in St. John's and was buried in Trinity.

Bess had two brothers who served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment: Cecil Green, service number 984 and Harvey Green, service number 2924.

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Andrew Green's Certificate of Unfitness
1918
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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This card was presented to every man who was turned down for service in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment after a medical exam. Andrew Green tried to sign up for the Regiment just like his brothers Cecil and Harvey but was turned down. The reason he was turned down is not explained on the card but according to his daughter Ada it was because of a bad leg.

The information on the card reads as follows:

Certificate of Unfitness No: 164

This is to certify that Andrew Green whose Post Office address is Trinity and whose occupation is Blacksmith has been rejected as medically unfit for general service in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Oct 7, 1918.

The reverse side of the card, please see the next slide, reads that his age was 25, his height was 5' 9" and his weight 170 lbs. Please note that while it says that the owner of the card must sign and keep it on his person Andrew did not do so.

Please also note that Andrew was described on his card as being a blacksmith at the age of 25. No doubt he started apprenticing with his father in the forge at an early age, probably around 13 or 14.

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Andrew Green (1893 - 1955) was married to Jessie Bartlett (1893-1968) in 1924. They had one child, Ada Lucille Green born August 5, 1925 in the United States of America. She married Tony Nemec in 1982.

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Blacksmithing Class at the John C. Campbell School
1991
Brasstown, North Carolina, U.S.A

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Ada was the only child of Andrew and Jessie Green, she and her husband Tony went on an Elderhostel trip in 1991to North Carolina to learn basic blacksmithing. This is the group of them standing in front of the John C. Campbell School where they got their training.

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Furniture made from tin by Ada in the forge when she was 10 or 11 years old.
1938
Green Family Forge,Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Ada used to go into the forge when she was younger and her father used to allow her to make dolls furniture out of pieces of tin.

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The group after the unveiling ceremony.
17 July 1993
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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The unveiling of the Registered Heritage Plaque at the Green Family Forge in 1992.

These plaques are given out by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in recognition of historically significant buildings being restored.

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Presentation of the Manning Award
24 March 2004
Fairmont Newfoundland Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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David White, President of the Trinity Historical Society, Ada Nemec, descendant of the Green family and Dr. Paul O'Neill with the Manning Award that the Society received in March 2004.

This award was given to the Society in recognition of the restoration work that they carried out on the Forge and for their work in providing demonstrations in blacksmithing.