Green, F H
FREDERICK HERBERT GREEN
Remembered with honour Thiepval Memorial: Pier and Face 2C.
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 December 1915, and was presumed killed in action during an unsuccessful attack on The Quadrilateral near Morval. Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Frederick Herbert and Harriet (nee HOWE) GREEN; husband of Ethel (nee MELTON) GREEN.
His parents married 20 April 1889 at All Saints, Croxley Green, Herts. Frederick died 1929 in Watford aged 59, and was buried 12 January in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Harriet died 1936 in Watford aged 65, and was buried 1 January 1937, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Frederick was born 9 or 20 June 1892 in Croxley Green. He attended first Red Lion Yard Infants’ School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 19 February to 9 October 1901, and again from 2 May 1904 to 26 May 1906. He married 1913 in the Watford district; they had two children. He resided in Watford. Ethel remarried 24 January 1920 at St James’, Watford, to John James NARROWAY, and died 1980 in the Watford district aged 88.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer’s labourer aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
Service number
17336Rank
PrivateUnit
8th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
on or since 15/09/1916Age at death
23Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)