Name
William George Green
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
4523
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
I. E. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
William George Green was born in 1878 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, the son of Hubert and Martha Green.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at The Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire and his father was a bootmaker. His mother died in 1882 aged 27 and his father remarried in 1885 to Emma Fisher.
In 1901 William was listed as a Private with the Royal Marine Light infantry on HMS Resolution which was at Gibraltar. He married Gladys Morris on 7 December 1902 in St Clements, Oxford. At the time he was working as a railway guard and living at 41 Adelaide Road, Shepherds Bush, London. They had two children, Gladys Rose (1905) and John George (1911).
On the 1911 Census Gladys and the children were living at 51 Gossoms End, Great Berkhamsted but William was a patient at the West Herts Hospital, Hemel Hempstead. His occupation was then given as a bootmaker (master).
Gladys gave her address on pension records as 36 Castle Street, Great Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Hertford and joined the Hertfordshire Regiment serving in France from 16 February 1915. At some point he was promoted to Lance Corporal but died of wounds received in action on 29 March 1915 when the Regiment were in trenches near Bethune.
He is buried in the Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France.
Additional Information
His widow Gladys received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 3s 3d. She also received a pension of £1 1s 0d a week for herself and her children. When she remarried in 1917 to David Bryden she received a remarriage gratuity of £34 13s 5d. The pension for the children continued at 9s 2d a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
