Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major H. S. Green, 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, killed in action, Ypres, 20 September 1917

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major) in Spink, London leather case bearing inscribed in gilt, ‘H. S. G. 4th Aug. 1914 - 20th Sep. 1917’; Oxford & Cambridge Prize Medal (3), reverse inscribed, ‘Bisley 1903 Oxford & Cambridge Chancellors Plate Cpl. H. S. Green, Trin. Coll. Camb.’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1903, in Munsey, Cambridge case of issue; another, reverse inscribed, ‘Bisley 1904 Oxford & Cambridge Chancellors Plate Sgt. H. S. Green, Trin. Coll. Camb.’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1904, in Munsey, Cambridge case of issue; another, ‘Bisley 1905 Oxford & Cambridge Chancellors Plate Sgt. H. S. Green, Trin. Coll. Camb.’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1905, in Munsey, Cambridge case of issue; Inns of Court O.T.C. Prize Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Inns of Court O.T.C. Battalion Cup 1909 won by Pte. H. S. Green of ‘B’ Company’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1909, last with adhesive marks to reverse, otherwise extremely fine (6) £300-400

Horace Salkeld Green was educated at Trinity College Cambridge. Trained at Inns of Court O.T.C., 1908-09. Employed as Clerk in the House of Commons. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, 21 October 1910. Promoted to Lieutenant in August 1911 and Captain in September 1914. Appointed Adjutant December 1914. As a Major in the 7th Battalion he was killed in action, by shell-fire, near Wurst Farm, Ypres, on 20 September 1917, aged 34 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of the late C. T. and Margaret Green, of St. Margaret’s, South Norwood Hill, London.

‘He was one of the finest of many fine officers who gave their lives. He had endeared himself to all ranks by his kindliness and cheerfulness, and his efficiency had been a standard which his juniors admired and to which they strove to attain. He lived always in the hearts of “A” who, right to the end of the war, called themselves “Major Green’s Company.” A brother officer writes of Major H. Green: “I always felt a sense of solidity and integrity about him and a quiet strength of character which gave confidence to those about him.”’ (Ref. History of the 7th (City of London) Battalion The London Regiment, compiled by C. Digby Planck.