BORN GOOLE 05/08/1897. SON OF GEORGE ALFRED GREEN (1867-1938) & ALICE MARY STATHER (1864-1940), OF 51, LEE STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 88, SUMMERGANGS ROAD, HULL. SON OF A TRAIN SIGNALMAN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A MOTOR MECHANIC WITH MESSRS, PEGDENS, CLARENDON STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL PALS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/02/1917, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/02/1917. *
See article from The Daily Mail, Hull, which appeared on 10th March 1984, about Private Charles Green. Included are quotations from Green’s letters home and from the letter sent to his parents breaking the news of his death, plus a photograph of Green. Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
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