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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
Commands4th 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 (20 August 1878 – 20 April 1964) was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.

Military career

Green was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 December 1897, and in March 1900 was seconded for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War, leaving Southampton on the SS Umbria late that month. 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. From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta. In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.

Works

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

References

  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. "No. 27179". The London Gazette. 3 April 1900. p. 2197.
  5. "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36099. London. 26 March 1900. p. 7.
  6. ^ Stanley Paul: "Evening Tattoo. By Brigadier-General A. F. U. Green." The Spectator
  7. ^ "The British Home Guard Pocketbook", 1940
  8. ^ John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, 2005, University of Alberta Press, ISBN 978-0888644367, p.366
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