GREEN Percy Victor

Awarded the Military Medal.

Percy Green enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 12th November 1914 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  On his attestation form he gave his date of birth as 27th November 1892 in Ombersley, Worcestershire, England, his profession as a farmer and his next of kin as Albert Green, Church Farm, Grimley, Worcestershire, England.  Percy was 5ft 8½ inches tall with blue eyes, black hair and a light complexion.

RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3782 – 44

United Parish Magazine, November 1914:
Added to last month’s list of men serving from this parish the following four young men who have all quitted their work in Canada to come to help in the defence of the motherland:- Roland Green and Percy V Green, sons of Mr A Green of the Church Farm, and brothers of Oswyn Green, already on the list.

United Parish Magazine, May 1915:
Our Roll of Honour
We have, from time to time, given the names of those connected with our parish who are serving in the War.  A wish has been expressed that we should have a complete list printed, stating the particular branch of service in which each man is engaged.  We accede to this request in supplying the following Roll:-
Percy Green Canadian Contingent

The Canada War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty) record the following information on Percy Green:
“Killed in Action.”
He was killed by a sniper’s bullet when, together with his Platoon Commander, attacking a machine gun post, near the Arras-Cambrai Road, South of Haucourt.
Buried in Vis-En-Arois British Cemetery, 8 miles South East of Arras, France.

A photograph of Sergeant P.V. Green, M.M. of Grimley can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 9th February 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.