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The project was any- thing but ordinary with students journeying to Ottawa at one point to examine the original military archives, attes- tation papers and wills in an effort to find the sto- ries behind the names they had been given. I learned a lot. He was OTs only World War I and World War II sol- dier, said Wyslobicky. I had his World War I and World War II file. I had a lot of research that I had to look through, plus I had some docu- ments that I found online. Wyslobicky learned Green had joined the First World War while still in his early 20s and initially served as a sol- dier with the 164th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In 1917 he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and posted to 47 Squadron at the Salonika front. By the end of the First World War he had shot down a number of German aircraft earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Green started a family after he returned home from war marrying his wife Marion and they had three children. When the Second World War began on Sept. 1, 1939 Green served as the command- ing officer of an Ontario flight school responsible for training new pilots for the war. He was killed Oct. 3, 1941 when he acciden- tally fell off the balcony of a Toronto hospital. Wyslobicky would learn even more about Green as he put his report together. I was working on fin- ishing my project up one night and my dad came in and asked me to look up a phone number for him on Canada 411 (website). After he left, I still had Canada 411 open on the screen and I had a print out nearby listing the names of Charles Bremner Greens three children, he said. He named one of his kids Bremner. I figured Bremner wasnt a very common name so I thought if I typed in Bremner Green I might find something. Wyslobicky typed the name into Canada 411 and found a match in the area with a phone call soon verifying the man was indeed Greens son. He was pretty inter- ested in what I was doing, said Wyslobicky. He brought me this CD that his son had made with all this infor- mation about Charles Bremner Green. He had Charles Bremner Greens original flight log in perfect condition, which was really neat to see and he had pictures of the football team and the rugby team at OT back when Charles Bremner Green was attending. It was really neat to see all that stuff. After completing his project, Wyslobicky gave Greens son a copy, which was deeply appre- ciated with Greens son donating his fathers flight logs and letters his father had written home dur- ing the war to OT. The logs and letters in turn have been scanned by the Oakville Museum, so OT can hang on to copies while the originals will soon be placed in the keeping of the Oakville Historical Society, which can properly preserve them. For Wyslobicky, the expe- rience of putting this history project together and meeting Greens son has been a phe- nomenal one. I was kind of in shock at the beginning because I just happened to look up the phone number and it actual- ly turned out to be his son and then, when I actually got to meet him, it was just such a great experience. Seeing all the photos he had was really interesting, he said. Just to make that person- al connection, it really made the whole project mean a lot to me and Im sure it meant a lot to him, too. High school project evolves into museum exhibit Relative of First World War flying ace donates flight logs and letters to historical society Just to make that personal connection, it really made the whole project mean a lot to me and I am sure it meant a lot to him, too. Shane Wyslobicky, OTHS student