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Possibly Private 3/10241 Northamptonshire Regiment
Possibly Charles Green born August 1873 in Kings Cliffe whose
parents were John and Mary Ann Green of Hall Yard, Kings
Cliffe.
He is mentioned In the Dixon letter of Kings Cliffe men who had
joined up in 1914.
GREEN Charles Henry
Rifleman S/8059 Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)
Born at the end of 1891 at Kings Cliffe, Charles was the son of
Alfred and Harriet Green of Park Street, Kings Cliffe.
He was still living there in 1911 working as a railway labourer,
before moving to Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, where he joined
up.
The Rifle Brigade arrived at Boulogne on 21st July 1915. Two
months later they were involved in the Battle of Loos. This
was the first occasion that the British used chlorine gas as a
weapon. It was a disaster. They were relying on the wind to
blow the gas into the German trenches but it proved fickle and
lingered in no-man’s-land and sometimes blew back into the
British trenches.
It was on that day that Charles Green died in action. Whether it
was as a result of the gas is not known.
He is remembered on Ploegsteert Memorial at Comines-
Warneton, at Hainaut in Belgium, Panel 10.
This is almost certainly the mysterious “Green H” on the Kings
Cliffe church memorial. The only other contender was Horace
Green who was born in the village in 1881. There is no record of
his dying in the war and he and his family had left Cliffe before
1891 so is highly unlikely to have been remembered in the
1920s.
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Possibly Private 3/10241 Northamptonshire Regiment
Possibly Charles Green born August 1873 in Kings Cliffe whose
parents were John and Mary Ann Green of Hall Yard, Kings
Cliffe.
He is mentioned In the Dixon letter of Kings Cliffe men who had
joined up in 1914.
GREEN Charles Henry
Rifleman S/8059 Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)
Born at the end of 1891 at Kings Cliffe, Charles was the son of
Alfred and Harriet Green of Park Street, Kings Cliffe.
He was still living there in 1911 working as a railway labourer,
before moving to Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, where he joined
up.
The Rifle Brigade arrived at Boulogne on 21st July 1915. Two
months later they were involved in the Battle of Loos. This
was the first occasion that the British used chlorine gas as a
weapon. It was a disaster. They were relying on the wind to
blow the gas into the German trenches but it proved fickle and
lingered in no-man’s-land and sometimes blew back into the
British trenches.
It was on that day that Charles Green died in action. Whether it
was as a result of the gas is not known.
He is remembered on Ploegsteert Memorial at Comines-
Warneton, at Hainaut in Belgium, Panel 10.
This is almost certainly the mysterious “Green H” on the Kings
Cliffe church memorial. The only other contender was Horace
Green who was born in the village in 1881. There is no record of
his dying in the war and he and his family had left Cliffe before
1891 so is highly unlikely to have been remembered in the
1920s.
83
