Name
Frank Green
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/01/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
156311
Royal Field Artillery
"B" Battery, 155th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVI. C. 2A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Gone but not forgotten
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of William and Hannah Green. Frank was born around 1887. We have not yet found the family in the census, but we do know that his mother’s address after he died was given as Bearton Green Farm, Bedford Road, Hitchin and that he had a brother called Harry.
Officially Frank was recorded as born in Hitchin, Herts., and enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin where he resided and was originally Private, SE/9081 in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and allocated Regimental Number 156311. He served in ‘B’ Battery of the 156th Brigade in the Royal Field Artillery who were equipped with 18 pounder guns. He was fatally wounded in Belgium.
The unit was probably near the Menin Road with the 33rd Division at the time of his death.
He was buried in Plot XXVI, Row C, Grave 2A in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium This cemetery was used by several Casualty Clearing Stations in the area and is near Poperinghe. A private inscription was added to his gravestone reading "Gone but not forgotten", as requested by Mr H Green, Bearton Green Farm, Bedford Road, Hitchin.
Additional Information
After his death a sum of £11 3s was authorised to go to his mother, Hannah, brother Harry each , on 22 April 1918, and another £11 2s 11d to his sister in law, Lucy on 8 June 1918. Later, a war gratuity of £12 was authorised to be paid to his mother on 24 November 1919.
His pension cards record Hannah, his mother, as his dependant, living at Bearton Green Farm, Bedford Road, Hitchin. She was awarded a pension of 6s a week from 14 July 1918.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
