Name
Ernest George Green
7/08/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/11/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/27177
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Not on the Aldenham Memorials, King's Lynn War Memorial, Norfolk,
Pre War
Son of Arthur William and Margaret Ann (nee GOAT) GREEN.
His parents married 1886 in the King’s Lynn, Norfolk, district. Arthur died 1929 in the King’s Lynn district aged 64.
Ernest was born 7 August 1891 in Boston, Lincs, and baptised 9 January 1895 at All Saints, South Lynn, Norfolk. He attended St Margaret’s Church of England School, King’s Lynn, from 3 October 1898 to 28 July 1905. He was recorded as living in Aldenham, Herts. at the time of his enlistment.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in King’s Lynn, with his parents and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, an assistant grocer aged 19, he still lived in King’s Lynn, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His mother Margaret received his Pay Owing of £9-9s-10d, and his father received a War Gratuity of £3. Unfortunately, Ernest’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
