Casualty 1914-1915 Star awarded to Private A. Green, 1st/1st Battalion, Leicestershire Yeomanry who saw service on the Western Front from 27th May 1915 and would later be killed on 22nd June 1917 subsequently being buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery.
1914-1915 Star; (2587 PTE. A. GREEN. LEIC. YEO.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
Alfred William Green was born on 25th November in Lichfield, Staffordshire and was baptised on 2nd January 1895 at Christchurch, Lichfield, he was the son of George Green and Annie Beatrice Green (nee Gough) who were married at St. Paul’s Church, Burton on Trent on 5th May 1884.
George Green formerly a Quartermaster in the Queen’s Own Staffs Yeomanry, was a butcher and meat contractor with a shop in Lichfield and in the 1890s the Green family lived at Boston House, Walshall Road, Leomansley, Lichfield.
By he time of the 1911 census, Alfred was working as a packer in the hosiery trade in Loughborough, and he would go on to join the 1st/1st Battalion, Leicestershire Yeomanry and would see service as a Private (No. 2587, later No. 255519) on the Western Front from 27th May 1915 initially serving in the Ypres area. He would later serve around Arras and on the Somme.
On 22nd June 1917 the Germans would attempt a raid at Buire, and three soldiers of his battalion were brought in wounded, with all subsequently dying. Alfred Green was buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery. He is also commemorated in the former St. Peter’s Church building in Loughborough and on the Carillon.
Alfred’s brother Richard died of wounds whilst serving with the Grenadier Guards in 1914.
