Arthur Green (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green CMG DSO[1] (born 1878) was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.

Arthur Frank Umfreville Green
Green (left) with General Haking in 1918 at Spa.
Born1878
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankBrigadier-General
Commands held4th Battalion, Sussex Home Guard
Battles/warsAnglo-Boer War
World War I
World War II
AwardsDistinguished Service Order

Military career

Green was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 December 1897,[2] and in March 1900 left Southampton on the SS Umbria to serve in South Africa in the Second Boer War.[3] During World War I he was deployed in Flanders and in Italy. He served as a quartermaster general with the XI Corps and was part of the Inter-Allied Commission at the Spa Conference of 1920.[4] From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta.[4] In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.

Works
  • As Down Of Thistle (1904) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[5]
  • The Countermine (1905) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[5]
  • Landscape sketching for military purposes, London, Hugh Rees, 1908.[6]
  • Evening Tattoo, 1940.[6]
  • The British Home Guard Pocket-Book, 1940.[6]
  • Questions Answered about Rifle Shooting, 1945.[6]

References
  1. "haileybury.com". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. Hart′s Army list, 1901
  3. "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36099. London. 26 March 1900. p. 7.
  4. Stanley Paul: "Evening Tattoo. By Brigadier-General A. F. U. Green." The Spectator
  5. "The British Home Guard Pocketbook", 1940
  6. John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, 2005, University of Alberta Press, ISBN 978-0888644367, p.366
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