James Alfred GREEN
- Born: Cir Jun 1889, Oxford, Oxfordshire 1
- Died: 7 May 1917, Rouen, France aged about 27 2
- Buried: St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France
 Noted events in his life were:
• Residence, 1911, Ferry Road, Marston, Oxford.
• Military Service. 1/4th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Service no 2319 / 200475
Arrived in France 28th June 1915
• Cemetery: St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, May 1917, Plot; P. I. D. 11B. 3 4
During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920. During the Second World War, Rouen was again a hospital centre and the extension was used once more for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen, many of whom died as prisoners of war during the German occupation. The cemetery extension contains 8,346 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (ten of them unidentified) and in Block "S" there are 328 from the Second World War (18 of them unidentified). There are also 8 Foreign National burials here. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
• Soldiers Died in the Great War.
Name: James Alfred Green
Birth Place: St. Ebbes, Oxon
Residence: Oxford
Death Date: 7 May 1917
Enlistment Location: Oxford
Residence: St Clements, Oxon
Rank: Private
Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Battalion: 1/4 Battalion.
Number: 200475
Type of Casualty: Died
Theater of War: France and Flanders
Next of Kin: Son of Mrs. Ada Green, of 16, New Street, St. Clements, Oxford.
• Obituary, 19 May 1917, the Oxford Times. 5
DIED
Pte James Alfred Green age 28, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, eldest son of Mrs A Green 16, New Street St Clements has died in hospital in France . He joined up on the commencement of the war, leaving employment as a moulder, at Dean's of the Cowley-road. He was an old Holy Trinity schoolboy.
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