Roland Green

Education

He attended Sydney Boys High School and served in the 6th Battalion AIF in the First World War, until losing a leg at the Battle of Menin Road in Belgium, in September 1917.

Career

Green used an ingenious punning campaign slogan: "Vote for the Green without an East" (ie "a knee"). Lack of an East in his name also gave him precedence on the ballot paper over Massy-Greene (who had not adopted a hyphenated surname at that time). He remained the member for Richmond until his defeat at the 1937 election by Larry Anthony (senior), another Country Party candidate.

Achievements

• To general surprise, Green won the House of Representatives seat of Richmond for the Country Party at the December 1922 election, defeating the sitting member and government minister Walter Massy-Greene.