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Frederick Green was 23 when the war broke out. His father, an agricultural worker originally from Norfolk, settled in Beverley around 1911, by which time Ottringham born Frederick was a waggoner on a farm at Beverley Parks.
Frederick joined the 5th Yorkshire Regiment at Scarborough the 14 Sep 1914 and arrived in France the 18 Apr 1915. In July the Regiment were involved in heavy fighting between Ypres and Armentieres and Driver 2233 Frederick Green was wounded. A small piece appeared in the Beverley Guardian on 24 July with photographs of Frederick and his younger brother, Royal Marine, Charles Herbert but no details were given of Frederick's injury. Frederick came back to England to recover and in Dec 1915 he married Beverley girl Lilian Harriet Tate at the Wesleyan Chapel in Wednesday Market. Frederick returned to Army service in May 1916 with the newly created Machine Gun Corps, from Grantham's Machine Gun Training Centre. In Oct 1916 he was on his way to Basra with 133 Company MGC, attached to 9th Infantry Brigade, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Corps. Frederick spent the next 3 years in the Middle East - Basra, Suez, Cairo, Baghdad and according to his Army Service Records he was appointed Lance Corporal from Oct 1917.
However, Frederick must have decided army life was right for him and his family as, having been demobilised in Mar 1920, he re-enlisted for a further 4 years with 5th Green Howards in Nov 1922 and then a further 4 years from 1929. The 1939 Register shows Frederick and Lilian living at 9 Routh Avenue, Beverley, his occupation is given as contractor's labourer. At the time of his death Frederick's address was 129 Keldgate, Beverley, he was buried in Queensgate Cemetery on 3 Sep 1965 aged 76 years.
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