242471 Cpl. Arthur Green British Army 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment (d.12th April 1918) Arthur Green was born and raised in the Hampshire town of Whitchurch. He enlisted with the Hampshire Regiment and served for 3 years as a regular soldier before returning to his home town where he worked as a groom and barman in local hotels and public houses. He married and started a family but was recalled as a reservist at the very outbreak of the Great War. He fought alongside his comrades in the 1st Hampshires throughout 1915 And into 1916 when, on the terrible first day of The Battle of the Somme, he was seriously injured on Redan Ridge and evacuated to England.
Having recovered Arthur was rebadged and was soon at the front again with 1st Wiltshires. April 1918 found him in front of Plugstreet Wood as a Corporal facing the onslaught of what was to be the last desperate attempt by the Germans to achieve victory on the Western Front. We can only assume that Arthur was wounded in this battle and captured as he was buried in a German cemetery at La Basse Ville, Warneton, close by a German hospital and several miles in the rear of their front.
Corporal Arthur Green now rests in The Strand Cemetery proudly remembered by his succesors and their extended families.
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