Frederick Walter Green
Killed in action on 28 May 1917, aged about 23
Rifleman, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 17th Battalion
Service no. C/3566
Remembered at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
British Army Service Records
- Address 14 Bromells Road, Clapham
- Unmarried
- Optical worker
- 5 feet 8 and a half inches tall
- 132 pounds
- Chest: 35 and a half inches + 4 inches expansion
- Mole in front of right ear
- Mother Mary Ann Green
- 26 May 1916 Admitted to hospital in the field - scabies
- 2 June 1916 Rejoined Battalion
- 19 August 1918 NYD (not yet diagnosed)
- ? 1916 Neurasthenia
- 25 October 1916 Neurasthenia
- 12 Jan 1917 "Sick"
- 9 Feb 1917 "Legs"
- 29 April 1917 Rejoined Battalion
- Attested at Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell (letter dated 31 May 1915)
- Effects: 2 discs, photos, mirror, razor, scissors
- Misdemeanour: at Witley, Surrey - 14 February 1916 - Overstaying leave from midnight 12 Feb 1916 to 6pm 15 Feb 1916 - deprived of 4 days' pay.
- W.5080 Mother's address 115 The Chase, Clapham, lived there with Green's 2 sisters: "Alice Marie Flint" and "Ruby Ethel Flint"
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Frederick Green, then aged 17, lived at 17 Culmstock Road, off Clapham Common Westside. He worked as a brewery clerk. His father, Alfred Green, 41, was a compositor originally from Bloomsbury, London; his mother, Mary Ann Green, 50, was from Dorking, Surrey. He had one brother, Alfred Purser Green, 13. Both boys were born in Battersea. His widowed grandmother, Harriet Day, 77, lived with the family and Herbert Noble, a 26-year-old commercial traveller (woollens) from Ireland, boarded with the family.