Name
Arthur Dowson Green (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1914
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Worcestershire Regiment
Attached as Brigade Major 17th Inf. Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SOUPIR COMMUNAL CEMETERY
A. 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 12 Apr 1874 son of Henry Green. Educated at Haileybury 1887–91. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the Essex Regiment from the militia on 2 Jun 1894. Made Lieutenant 14 Aug 1897, Captain in the Worcestershire Regiment on 20 Jun 1900 and then Major on 14 Feb 1912. Served in Sierra Leone in 1898, in the South African War 1899-1902 and in West Africa in 1906–07. He married Isabella Margaret Stewart, of Caryll Hurst, West Grinstead, Sussex and had one son.
Distinguished Service Order (1902), Mentioned in Dispatches (18 Feb 1901, 29 Jul 1902 and 2 Jul 1907).
Wartime Service
Killed in action in the Battle of the Aisne at Soupir.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
