Arthur Green (British Army officer) explained

Arthur Frank Umfreville Green
Birth Date:	1878 8, df=y
Allegiance:	United Kingdom
Rank:	Brigadier-General
Commands:	4th Battalion, Sussex Home Guard
Battles:	Anglo-Boer War World War I World War II
Awards:	Distinguished Service Order

Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green ^[1] (20 August 1878 – 20 April 1964) was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.^[2]

Military career

Green was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 December 1897,^[3] and in March 1900 left Southampton on the SS Umbria to serve in South Africa in the Second Boer War.^[4] During World War I he was deployed in Flanders and in Italy. He served as a quartermaster general with the XI Corps and was part of the Inter-Allied Commission at the Spa Conference of 1920. From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta.^[5] In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.

Works

• As Down Of Thistle (1904) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.^[6]

• The Countermine (1905) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.^[6]

• Landscape sketching for military purposes, London, Hugh Rees, 1908.^[7]

• Evening Tattoo, 1940.

• The British Home Guard Pocket-Book, 1940.^[7]

• Questions Answered about Rifle Shooting, 1945.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: haileybury.com . 2015-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924024610/http://www.haileybury.com/medals/FRANCE.htm . 2015-09-24 . dead .
2. Web site: Green, Brig.-Gen. Arthur Frank Umfreville . WHO WAS WHO 2024 . 6 February 2024.
3. Hart′s Army list, 1901
4. The War - Embarcation of Troops . 26 March 1900 . 7 . 36099.
5. http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-april-1941/20/evening-tattoo-by-brigadier-general-a-f-u-green-st Stanley Paul: "Evening Tattoo. By Brigadier-General A. F. U. Green."
6. "The British Home Guard Pocketbook", 1940
7. John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, 2005, University of Alberta Press,, p.366