GREEN, OSWALD WILFRED

Born 1898, Gayton, Norfolk

Died 03/11/1944, age 46, death registered at Gosport, Hampshire

Buried 09/11/1944

LT/KX 101660, Engineman, Royal Naval Patrol Service, H.M. T.I.D. 99 (a small harbour tug)

Son of Joseph and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Green

Husband of Ellen Wardle, married 1921 in Grimsby

Father of Joseph (b 1923), Gordon (b 1930) and Pamela (b 1937)

1911 – living in Gayton, with parents, a bricklayer’s labourer (father a bricklayer)

1918/1919 – listed on the register of absent voters as “124802 Gunner, 34 Siege Bty”, address Jubilee Road, Gayton

1936 – address listed as 7 Poplar Grove, Cleethorpes

1939 – family living at 9 Poplar Grove. Oswald is not on the register (probably at sea). Son Joseph is an apprentice rigger.

Address at time of death: 9 Poplar Grove, Cleethorpes

Grave ref: Section CC, Grave H29

www.naval-history.net states that Oswald Green died of wounds.