Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. Green, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed in action at the Battle of Gheluvelt, 30 October 1914 - during the three day battle Green’s battalion suffered over 400 casualties.

1914 Star, with clasp (10123 Pte. H. Green. 2/R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-10123 Pte. H. Green. R. Suss. R.); Memorial Plaque (Henry Green) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Henry Green, Royal Sussex Regiment’, minor tears to the Scroll, the medals extremely fine (4) £400-500

Henry Green was born in Brighton and attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment at Chichester, West Sussex. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Gheluvelt on 30 October 1914, on which date the battalion was ordered to counter-attack the German positions on the Zandvoorde ridge as part of General Bulfin’s force: over the course of three days’ hard fighting, 29-31 October 1914, the Battalion suffered 405 casualties, and earned for itself the soubriquet ‘The Iron Regiment’. Green has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.