Before we came across the memorial to Pte Cheetham yesterday I had a week or so completed a collection of photographs of all the known commemoration memorials and the war graves in CE section L. Attached is my photograph of the memorial to the GREEN brothers on grave no 13603. The photo is not very clear because I had to take it from a funny angle because of the vegetation that currently overshadows it blocking the light. Henry GREEN has been quite easy to identify (even though CWGC give a date of death one day different to that on the memorial) and I attach my photo of his grave in Doullens in the Somme together with a link to CWGC info about him. cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/82898/GREEN,%20HENRY However, positive identification of John GREEN is slightly more problematic. There is a Private 16738 John GREEN of the Cameronians (a regiment quite a few Blackburn men served with) named on the Loos Memorial and I think this is pretty likely to be him so I attach a link to CWGC info cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1764177/GREEN,%20JOHN There is also Lance Corporal 14448 J GREEN of the Royal Berkshires who died the same day buried at Dud Corner, Loos (though I think this less likely to be our man). Just to complicate matters a Lance Corporal John GREEN of the Rifle Brigade who died on the same day is named on the Ploegsteert Memorial which is just over the Belgian border from France (but I think it unlikely that a dead soldier would have been moved even a short distance from the battlefield where he fell). CWGC do not give any indication of where any of these three men came from. It might be possible to make a more certain identification from websites specialising in military records or genealogy, or from local papers or records of the time.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:37:00 +0000
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