1915
26 Feb
Crossed from Southampton to Le Havre.
March
Cassel, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
3 - 4 Mar
Cattle truck to Cassel and then march to Oudezeele, Belgium. [Le Havre to Cassel is nearly 200 miles]
10 - 13 Mar
First battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.
4 Apr - 20 Jun
Action in Kemmel sector, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Aug
Action in Hooge, Sanctuary Wood. Rest bivouac near Poperinghe, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
13 - 14 Oct
L Cpl Green had been promoted to sergeant by October 13, when he fought in the British assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. He
was awarded the Military Medal for almost single-handedly holding back a German counter attack for 24 hours.
25 Dec
Molinghem, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. ADD LINK TO LETTER
L Cpl Green went over to France early in 1915 and had been promoted to sergeant by October 13, when he fought in the British assault on the
Hohenzollern Redoubt. He was awarded the Military Medal for almost single-handedly holding back a German counter attack for 24 hours. He
mentioned the incident in a letter home and official censors added a comment praising his heroism. Over the following years he was gassed in a
chlorine attack, which left him with life long breathing problems, and was wounded three times. He returned to England in 1917 to be commissioned
as a second lieutenant at Bristol. Later that year he rose to the rank of Captain and was awarded the Military Cross for his actions at Saint-Christ on the
River Somme. In the final year of the conflict Capt Green was stationed at Roucy when the Germans launched the Ludendorff Offensive, a last ditch bid
to overwhelm the Allied forces. A shell exploded near him and his legs were badly wounded by shrapnel and machine-gun fire. He managed to crawl to
the safety of Gernicourt Wood, where he flagged down a dispatch rider who was unaware of the unfolding chaos. The rider jettisoned a box of carrier
pigeons from the back of his motorbike. Capt Green climbed aboard and was driven to safety. This marked the end of his involvement in the war and
he would spend the next four years in hospital being treated for his wounds. He needed check ups and follow-up treatment for the rest of his life and
suffered from a permanent stiffness in his legs. He married Dorothy Shedden in December 1921 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire. They had four
children in 13 years. During the Second World War he trained a Home Guard company in Sheffield and was shot again in an accident on the rifle range.
He was hit in the stomach after a trainee left a round in his chamber and it discharged, richocheting off a wall.In his spare time Capt Green was a fund-
raiser for the Royal British Legion and a patron of the Old Contemtibles Association. He died on September 5, 1951, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, at the age of
55 of heart failure exarcerbated by his injuries. His son John, born 1935, said' "My mother told me that he had the most terrible nightmares but as
children we never knew about it - to us, he was just Dad.""He was also a very devoted Christian and I know his faith helped him overcome these things.
When I think about it I just can't imagine how he coped.""It was announced at his funeral that he'd been considered for a Victoria Cross but we never
found out any more as many records were lost during the Blitz.""It just shows the calibre of the chap he was, although he was the most gentle man you
could ever hope to meet. We weren't a well off family by any means but he always insisted our clothes were handed to people in need."