Lieutenant Frank Green, 5th Yorkshire Regiment
Died of wounds, on 28/12/1917 (aged 23)

BORN BEVERLEY. SON OF WILLIAM & MARTHA GREEN OF 52 KELDGATE, BEVERLEY.  HE IS LISTED ON BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL WITH BROTHER PHIL GREEN WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 28/03/1918, AGED 27.

Lt. Frank Green (23) died of his wounds in 1918 after a shell burst in the entrance to the dugout he was in. He was wonderfully cheerful and brave, his interests centred on his men.He had only just got back from sick leave in England and could have been enjoying a soft job in England but felt he should be back with his old battalion€. The youngest of 4 sons, of the proprietor of the Beverley Guardian, he was educated at Beverley Grammar School and in Gotha in Germany. He was commissioned in 1915 in the Yorkshire Regiment where his brother Robin was a captain. Another brother, 2nd Lt. Philip Green was also killed in action

A list of Ex-Beverley Grammar School students enlisting includes F. Green, a journalist, joining the East Yorkshire Yeomanry. (BG, Saturday 10th October 1914).

F. Green at home from the front recovering from a severe attack of Para-typhoid fever. (BG, Saturday 23rd September 1916)

"Lieutenant Frank Green, Dies of wounds. News was received by wire on Monday of the death from wounds on Friday last of Lt. Frank Green, Yorkshire Regiment (Beverley Territorials), youngest of the four soldier sons of Mr W. Green of Keldgate, Beverley, proprietor of the 'Beverley Guardian'. Lt. Green was 23 years of age, and was educated at Beverley Grammar School and at Gotha in Germany, and previous to the war was a member of the staff of this paper. He belonged to the East Riding Yeomanry and was called up on mobilisation at the outbreak of war. He was given a commission in 1915 in the Yorkshire Regiment in which his brother Mr Robin Green is a captain." There follows a letter from the Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Beverley Terriers, which says, "a shell burst in the entrance of the dug out in which Lt Green and two other officers were sitting, killing the other two instantaneously, and so seriously wounding Lt Green that he passed away very soon after reaching the Casualty Clearing Station." There are letters from other officer, and a photograph (BG, Saturday 5th January 1918).