LAST NAVAL SHOT
INCIDENT OF GREAT WAR. The man who is credited with having fired the last shot in the Great War at sea has retired from the command of the South African Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, states' a Reuter message from Capetown. He is Commander Maurice Green, V.D., who in civilian life is clerk of the Union Senate. He has been an officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for 28 years, having joined shortly after its establishment in Capetown. The day before the Armistice wai signed, his ship, U.M.S., Dragon, was in action with enemy seaplanes in the Heligoland Bight, and it was then that Commander Green is believed to have fired the last shot of the war at sea.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 3
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125LAST NAVAL SHOT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 3
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