GREEN Thomas

Above is the cover to the photo album cherished by his widow, Kate Green

in the 1911 census

GREEN Thomas D.C.M.

2nd Lieutenant, 105 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died of Wounds aged 29 on 28th October 1916 at BEAUCOURT, The Somme

Buried at BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, France

Husband of Kate Green, of 74, St. Peters Rd., Great Yarmouth.

Son of Thomas Green, of Blackpill, Swansea.

Holder of Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded for conspicuous gallantry to 22489, Sergeant T. Green, for saving three men in shell damaged hut under fire.

22489 Sergent T Green, 3rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery,

For conspicuous gallantry, When a garrison hut was hit and set on fire by an enemy shell and some cases of cartridges set on fire, Sargent Green was the first person to enter the hut, and succeeded, sngle handed, in rescuing the badly wounded men.

Notice in the supplement to the London Gazette of 30th March 1906 of the award of the DCM, to Sargent Green on 3rd March 1916.

He was later promoted to second lieutenant on the field.

In the 1911 census, Thomas Green, born in Swansea, living in the Royal Artillery Barracks in Great Yarmouth. He was single at that time, aged 24.