Kent Temples is a costumed superhero operating in 1930s London who became the second Union Cross. Kent Temples worked as a journalist in the London Herald newspaper company, begrudgingly writing about the exploits and adventures of British superheroes such as Jimmy Lightning and Phantom Lion, feeling that he would rather write about 'real' heroes such as police officers and firemen. His viewpoint was changed when he met the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as he arrived in London after escaping Austria. As the guards reveal themselves to be German Nazi soldiers in disguise and tried to assassinate them both, the Phantom Lion and the Black Knight defended them from barrages of bullets. Realizing how thrilling and exciting the way the superheroes fight the Nazi soldiers and this changed his viewpoint, now feeling that being a superhero is an exhilarating work and became interested in being one himself.
Walking back home after his interview with Sigmund Freud, he saw two muggers trying to rob a woman and without hesitation jumped in to help. Even though he was not a good fighter, he managed to fend the muggers off. As the lady thanked him for saving her, he felt like a true hero protecting the innocent from evil and found his calling. As he began designing his costume alongside his good friend and costume designer Stan Southwark, he chose the name Union Cross as a tribute to one of the earliest British superheroes to emerge and designed his costume as a tribute to the original's costume. With a British flag draped over as an easily detachable cape, and a red, white and blue spandex with bullet-proof armor to homage the original costume. Taking up training in boxing and Krav Maga, he decided it is time and officially donned his costume on January 12 1938, being met with doubt by the other superheroes of the time. That all changed when he tracked down and brought to justice notorious racketeer Howard Oliver by himself, slowly being regarded as one of London's finest costumed men.
In 1 September 1939, Union Cross and the other British superheroes were sent to Westerplatte in Poland after the British government unofficially declared war on Germany. He met with local Polish superhero Scarlet Cross and playfully mocked him over their similar names. As the combined forces of British superheroes and the Polish soldiers pushed the German Nazi soldiers to retreat, He became quite close to the Scarlet Cross and even became very close friends. Unfortunately, in 2 September 1939, the Germans bombarded the Westerplatte peninsula with naval and heavy artillery. A two-wave air raid by Stuka dive bombers dropped 26.5 tons of bombs, taking out the Polish mortars and destroying Outpost Five with a 500kg bomb, killing eight soldiers, including the Scarlet Cross. Heavily shaken by the bombs and Scarlet Cross's death, Union Cross is now trapped in Poland in the Battle of Westerplatte, stuck in the middle.