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Arthur Frank Umfreville Green
Green (left) with General Haking in 1918 at Spa.
Born(1878-08-20)20 August 1878
Died20 April 1964(1964-04-20) (aged 85)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankBrigadier-General
Commands held4th Battalion, Sussex Home Guard
Battles/warsAnglo-Boer War
World War I
World War II
AwardsDistinguished Service Order

Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green CMG DSO[1] (20 August 1878 – 20 April 1964) was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.[2]

Military career[edit]

Green was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 December 1897,[3] and in March 1900 left Southampton on the SS Umbria to serve in South Africa in the Second Boer War.[4] During World War I he was deployed in Flanders and in Italy. He served as a quartermaster general with the XI Corps and was part of the Inter-Allied Commission at the Spa Conference of 1920.[5] From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta.[5] In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.

Works[edit]

  • As Down Of Thistle (1904) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[6]
  • The Countermine (1905) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[6]
  • Landscape sketching for military purposes, London, Hugh Rees, 1908.[7]
  • Evening Tattoo, 1940.[7]
  • The British Home Guard Pocket-Book, 1940.[7]
  • Questions Answered about Rifle Shooting, 1945.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "haileybury.com". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Green, Brig.-Gen. Arthur Frank Umfreville". WHO WAS WHO 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
  4. ^ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36099. London. 26 March 1900. p. 7.
  5. ^ a b Stanley Paul: "Evening Tattoo. By Brigadier-General A. F. U. Green." The Spectator
  6. ^ a b "The British Home Guard Pocketbook", 1940
  7. ^ a b c d John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, 2005, University of Alberta Press, ISBN 978-0888644367, p.366