Harold Green
Service number
100069
Military unit
1st Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Address
Retford
Date of birth
Date of death
25 Apr 1918 (19 years old)
Place of birth
Branston, Lincolnshire
Employment, education or hobbies
As he appears on the Welbeck Abbey Estate workers war memorial he must have worked on the estate in some capacity.
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Harold was born in Branston, Lincolnshire and was the son of James a farm foreman and Mary Green, of Ivy Cottage, Kettlethorpe, Saxilby, Lincoln. James and Mary had 4 children , George, Albert, Harold, and Doris Mary. In both the 1901 and 1911 census the family are living at The Cliff, Welton, Lincolnshire.
Military history
Private Harld Grren enlisted at Retford, he served with the 1st battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment, he was killed in action on 25th April 1918 having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial
Extra information
additional reseach and information Peter Gillings
Photographs
Photo of Harold Green
Pozieres Memorial, France, courtesy of the cwgc