Henry Cecil GREENE

Surname: GREENE

Christian Names: Henry Cecil

Date & Place of Birth: 3rd September, 1892, Montagu, Tasmania

Service Number: 6564

Service Unit: 12th Battalion

Date & Place of Enlistment: 4th September, 1916, Claremont, Tasmania, age 24

Profession prior to Enlistment: Farmer

Date KIA: 9th January, 1918

Place KIA: France/Belgium, no known grave

Memorialised: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17)

Next of Kin (NOK) Address

Father: Alfred Stanley Greene (1859 – 1950) Tasmania, Marrawah

Mother: Constance Elizabeth Greene (nee Griffiths) (1864 - 1941)

Brother(s): Julien, Arthur, Stanley, Reginald, Alfred

Sister(s): Isabell

Service

France: Yes

Campaign Medals: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Rank: Private

Kingscote Honour Board Yes

Kingscote Monument Yes

Penneshaw Honour Board Yes

KI Connection: Decision made to include his name on the Fallen Soldiers Monument in Kingscote: District Council of Kingscote. (1925, September 19). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191554635

Tree planting ceremony at Kingscote: "H. Greene, planted by Mr P. H. Winch" AUSTRALIA DAY. (1915, August 7). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189510137

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Memorial to Henry Cecil Greene at Menin Gate

Photo May 2017: Compliments of Gordon Ings ex RAAF