Christopher GREEN
Death Notes: Died of Wounds received 7th August 1917 Noted events in his life were: • Residence, 3 Apr 1881, 14 Wood Street, St Ebbe, Oxford. 6 Age 4 Mnths • Fact 1, 15 Jun 1889, Boney's Bridge, Osney, Oxford. • Residence, 5 Apr 1891, 75 Blackfriars Rd, St Ebbe, Oxford. 7 Others Present: • Residence, 31 Mar 1901, 81 Blackfriars Rd, St Ebbe, Oxford. 8 • Residence, 4 Jun 1905, 3 Sillmans Row, Woodstock Road, Summertown, Oxford. • Residence, 2 Apr 1911, 10 Black Horse Lane, Woodstock Road, Summertown, Oxford. 9 • British Army, From May 1915 to Aug 1917. 10 Enlisting at Oxford, as Regimental Number 4981 / 201746 into the Territorials during May 1915 and was originally posted to the 3/4th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, based in England. This was a Holding & Training Battalion and it was from this unit that he embarked to France during March 1916 into "C" Coy of the 1/4th Battalion Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, (145 Infantry Brigade, 48th Division). He served with the Battalion in the Front Line at, HEBUTERNE March to mid July 1916. THE SOMME (POZIERES, OVILLERS, AUCHONVILLERS, LE SARS) July 23rd to January 1917. HERBECOURT February. LA MAISONNETTE and HERBECOURT March . VILLERS-FAUCON and RONSSOY April . HERMIES May. DEMICOURT June until 2 July. Moving to the YPRES area on 31 July 1917. Wounded during the Battle of the Somme in August 1916. He was wounded again on the 7 Aug 1917, and died on the 8th August during the early days of the Third Battle of Ypres. • Will: British Army Informal will, 10 Mar 1916. • Wounded: France. 11 Daily Casualty Lists. Reported In The Times 31 Aug 1916. • War Diary: 1/4th Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry, 4 Aug 1917. 12 • War Diary: 1/4th Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry, 5 Aug 1917. 12 • War Diary: 1/4th Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry, 6 Aug 1917. 12 • War Diary: 1/4th Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry, 7 Aug 1917. 12 • War Diary: 1/4th Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry, 8 Aug 1917. 12 13 • Dozinghem Casualty Clearing Station, Poperinge, Belgium. This was outside the front held by Commonwealth forces in Belgium, but in July 1917, in readiness for the forthcoming 3rd Ypers offensive, groups of casualty clearing stations were placed at three positions called by the troops Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. The 4th (25/6/1917 to 28/3/1918), 47th (25/6/1917 to 10/3/1918) and 61st (14/6/1917 to 13/1/1918) Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Dozinghem and the military cemetery used by them until early in 1918. • Cemetery: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Aug 1917, Grave Reference:- II. F. 15. 14 • Soldiers Died in the Great War. • Obituary: North Berks Herald , page 2, 12 Aug 1917. • Obituary: Oxford Times, 18 Aug 1917. 15 • Obituary: North Berks Herald, page 2, 25 Aug 1917. • Obituary: Oxford Journal Illistrated, 5 Sep 1917. 16 • Roll Of Honour, 8 Sep 1917, The Times. 17 • Casualty List: The War Record of the 1/4th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1919. 18 • Military Award. 19 20 Christopher married Ada Bertha TRITTON, daughter of Jesse TRITTON and Rosa SIMMS, on 1 Jun 1903 in Oxford, Oxfordshire.1 (Ada Bertha TRITTON was born on 28 May 1882 in 3 Sillmans Row, Woodstock Road, Summertown, Oxford,21 died on 31 Dec 1957 in 181 The Moors, Kidlington, Oxford 22 and was cremated in Jan 1958 in Oxford Crematorium, Oxford.) |
1
England and Wales, Marriage Certificate; citing 3a; Page: 1837, June quarter 1903, Oxford registration district, Headington sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.
2
England and Wales, Birth Certificate; citing Vol: 3a; Page: 699, December quarter 1880, Oxford registration district, Oxford sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.
3
General Records Office, "England and Wales Birth Index," database online, entry for Christopher Green, volume 3a, page 699, Dec quarter 1880, Oxford district; citing the General Register Office's England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes.
4
GRO War Deaths Army, Other Ranks (1914 to1921), Year; 1917: Volume; I. 54: Page; 127.
5
Commonwealth War Graves Commision, Grave/Memorial Referance:- II. F. 15; DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY.
6
1881 Census of England, St Ebbe, Oxford, folio 119, page 44, Christopher Green; PRO RG 11/1502.
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1891 Census of England, St Ebbe, Oxford, Oxfordshire, folio 92, page 33, Christopher Green; PRO RG 12/1168.
8
1901 Census of England, St Ebbe, Oxford, Oxfordshire, folio 106, page 30, Christopher Green; PRO RG 13/1385.
9
"1911 Census of England," digital images, Findmypast.com(http://www.1911census.co.uk : accessed 8th Feb 2009), entry for Christopher Green., 10 Blackhorse Lane, Woodstock Road, Summertown, Oxford; citing RG14PN8131, RG78PN412, registration district (RD) 152, sub district (SD) 2, enumeration district (ED) 20, shedule number ( SN) 36.
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Oxford & Bucks L. I. Museum, E-Mail from Research and Achive Team.
11
War Office Weekly Casualty List, London, HMSO ,"Daily Casualty Lists [03/09/1914-03/29/1920]" Newspapers.
12
WO95/2764 War Diaries for the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry.
13
Major P. Pickford. DSO. MC, War Record of the 1/4th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Printed 1919, by "The Banbury Guardian" Office), Pages 33 and 65.
14
Commonwealth War Graves Commision, Grave/Memorial Referance:- II. F. 15.
15
Oxford Times, 18th August, 1917.
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Oxford Journal Illistrated, Wed 5th Sept 1917, Page 6.
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The Times, Saturday 8th September 1917, Page 4: Roll Of Honour.
18
Major P. Pickford. DSO. MC, War Record of the 1/4th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Printed 1919, by "The Banbury Guardian" Office).
19
War Office and Air Ministry: Service Medal and Award Rolls (National Archive:- WO 329), Regimental Roll: WO 329/1365.
20
Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards (http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/DB.aspx?dbid=1262), Roll No: L/106B8; Page: 1637.
21
England & Wales Birth Index 1837 - 1983, Headington; Volume: 3a; Page: 718.
22
England and Wales, death certificate for Ada Bertha Green (Nee Tritton), died 31 Dec 1957; citing Vol: 6b/Page: 1207/No: 84, March quarter 1958, Ploughley & Bullingdon registration district, Ploughley sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.
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