Name
Percy Lewis Green
5/04/1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/6231
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 11 - 13 and 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt Town memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross memorial
Pre War
Percy Lewis Green was born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, on the 5th
April 1882. Son of William Green an Army Pensioner and Messenger and Charlote
Green (nee Edwards). One of nine children.
His parents William Green and Charlotte Edwards were married
in February 1871, at Great Warley, Essex, Charlotte’s home town.
1871 Census records William (34) a Sergeant in the Army
married to Charlotte (22), their address is Milton Barracks, Milton, Gravesend,
Kent. It is believed William was serving with the 1st/19th
Regiment of Foot.
Percy was Baptised on the 23rd June 1882, in the
Parish of Waltham Holy Cross, Essex.
1891 Census records Percy aged 9, living with his parents,
brothers, William (19), Henry (13), Frederick (11), sisters Beatrice (4) and
Daisy (2) at, 7 Queens Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
Percy enlisted Abt. 1899, in The Queens (Royal West Surrey
Regiment), issued with the service number 6231.
Percy served in the Boar War arriving with his Battalion in
South Africa in October 1900. He was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal, South
Africa 1901 Clasp, South Africa 1902 Clasp, Orange Free State Clasp and the
Transvaal Clasp.
1911 Census records Percy aged 30, single, his occupation is
given as a Commissioner, and a lodger at, 21 Maiden Lane, Corps of
Commissionaires, Exchange Court, 419 The Strand, London.
Wartime Service
At the out-break of war it is assumed Percy was in the Army
Reserve or the Territorial Force as he arrived in France, with 1st
Battalion, The Queens (RWSR) on the 19th September 1914. The 1st
Battalion saw action as soon as they arrived in France, taking a high rate of casualties,
by the first week of November 1914, there were only thirty-two survivors out of
a total of 998 men that arrived in September, Percy being one of the
casualties, he was Killed in Action on 31st October 1914. He has no
known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, in Belgium.
Additional Information
His effect of £16-5s-16d, Pay Owing was split between his
mother Charlotte, Sisters, surviving Brothers and his Sister-in-law Florence
Green. (Brother Henrys wife).
His brothers Corporal 4/5701 Henry Green was Killed in
Action on the 12th March 1915, and brother Private 1762 Herbert E.
Green was Killed in Action on the 27th May 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
