Name
Frank Green
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/01/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
156311
Royal Field Artillery
"B" Battery, 155th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVI. C. 2A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Gone but not forgotten
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of William and Hannah Green.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin where he resided and was allocated Regimental Number 156311. He served in ‘B’ Battery of the 156th Brigade in the Royal Field Artillery who were equipped with 18 pounder guns. He was fatally wounded in Belgium.
The unit was probably near the Menin Road with the 33rd Division at the time of his death.
He was buried in Plot XXVI, Row C, Grave 2A in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium This cemetery was used by several Casualty Clearing Stations in the area and is near Poperinghe.
Additional Information
A private inscription was added to his gravestone reading "Gone but not forgotten".
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
