Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM GREEN 12/171. Born Hull in 1895, details are thin on the ground otherwise. William was an orphan, and it appears, an only child. He was adopted by a Mr and Mrs mary Skinner of 26 Haddon Street, Hawthorn Avenue, Hull (war Pension address). He was employed as a Butcher, for Mr Gibbins, of Woodcock Street, Hull. When war came he enlisted at City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. Fatally wounded, he was withdrawn to the hospital camps at Rouen where he died on 5th July 1916 as the town was overcome by wounded shipping in their tens of thousands from the Somme battlefields. As doctors were forced to prioritise men they had a chance of saving, others who would have survived with a little attention, were left behind and died needlessly. We’ll never know if William might have made it. He was buried in St. Sever Cemetery; he was 21 years old.
His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, on 14/07/1916. *
