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Robert Green was born in Beverley the 5 Mar 1890 and was baptised at Beverley Minster the 13 Apr 1890. Though baptised as “Robert” he was often referred to as “Robin”. He was one of four sons born to William Green and Martha Whitton (nee Pattie). William was a local printer and proprietor of the Beverley Guardian newspaper.
Robert was brought up initially on Railway Street and then at 52 Keldgate, the Old Grammar School House. He attended Beverley Grammar School from 1901 to 1902 before attending Ripon Grammar School having won a House Scholarship. He later returned to Beverley to assist in the running of Green and Son who had a shop in Saturday Market.
Robert served in the East Yorkshire Yeomanry before the war but in Aug 1914 he was awarded a commission with the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards). He arrived in France with the 5th on 17 Apr 1915 and immediately went into action at St Julien near Ypres. He served in Belgium and France. On 17 Jun 1916 Robert was seriously wounded, he was hit in the thigh by shrapnel whilst visiting frontline trenches of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and sent to hospital in London to recuperate. He had only just returned at the time of his injury from leave in the UK. The Beverley Guardian of 24 Jun 1916 noted his wounding and also reported that Robert was a “noted shot, being the first to score the possible 100 on the Beverley Rifle Range, and was a prize winner at Bisley”. Robert was later promoted to captain and after the devastating German attack in France called Operation Blucher in May 1918 which decimated the 5th, it appears he then served as a captain and adjutant with the West Riding Regiment. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory medals. In the inter war period he was a major in the Territorial Reserve.
After the war Robert continued to assist in his father’s business and in 1933 took over after the death of his father. By this time Robert had married Edith Phyllis Gill, born in 1899 in West Yorkshire, daughter of a linen yarn bleacher, at Selby. They had one child, Hilary, born in 1930. The family home in the later 1930s was at south bay in Bridlington. Robert died in Hull in 1945 aged 56, Edith died in 1984.
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