Name
Robert Croft Green
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/11/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
98004
Royal Army Medical Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery
2. D. 14.
Tanzania
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bengeo memorials
Pre War
Born in 1879, in Bengeo, to parents Robert and Sarah, he was one of nine, in 1881 they lived at 60 Bengeo Street, Bengeo and his father was a joiner, by 1891 he was a builder’s assistant and they were still in Bengeo Street. In1901 they were living at 73 Bengeo street and his father was now a builder and Robert was a carpenter.
Robert married Ellen Muriel Allen on 22nd June 1905 in a registry office in Staines Middx. In 1911 they were living at 195 Brookscroft Road, Highams Park Walthamstow, Essex and they had a daughter named Cecilie Nina aged four.
At the time of his death his wife was living at 31 Walpole Road, Walthamstow, Essex with their daughter now aged ten and their son Robert Alan aged four.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in the RAMC at Walthamstow on 10th July 1916, he was transferred to Number 343 Field Ambulance Unit.
They were sent to Tanzania as part of the East African Expeditionary Force, fighting the Germans and their African soldiers, in what was virtually a guerrilla campaign in what was then German East Africa. More troops died from sickness than were casualties of the many battles and raids, one of them was Robert who died from dysentery in Number 3 Carrier Hospital, near Dar Es Salaam. During his military career he spent 354 days in England and 148 in Africa. He was medically rated Category C1 which normally means that you only served at home.
Acknowledgments
Terry & Glenis Collins
