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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 559

A Great War Canadian casualty's group of three awarded to Sergeant A. A. L. Green, Lord Strathcona's Horse, who died of wounds received at Givenchy in July 1915

1914-15 Star (2623 Sjt. A. A. L. Green, Ld. S'cona's H.); British War and Victory Medals (2623 Sjt. A. A. L. Green, L.S.H. - R.C.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque (Arthur Adelbert Lingard Green), very fine and better and rare to unit (4)

Arthur Adelbert Lingard Green was born at the Hudson Bay Company's outpost at Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, on 3 June 1890, the son of Alfred Lingard Green, who appears to have served as a Driver in the Transport Service in the Rebellion of 1885; his father later received a commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment and served with distinction in the Boer War, gaining the D.S.O. and advancement to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Volunteer Forces.

Young Arthur was educated privately at Quy Vicarage, Cambridgeshire and at St. Edward's School, Oxford; his education in Cambridgeshire was likely enacted under the auspices of his paternal grandfather, who was onetime Hon. Canon of Ely.

An adventurous character, Green returned to Canada and found work as a teamster and freight sleigh driver, in addition to enlisting in the British Columbia Horse. He was serving as a Sergeant by the outbreak of hostilities but, on learning that his regiment was not going to be employed overseas, quickly enlisted as a Private in Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians).

Embarked for England with the 1st Canadian Contingent, he regained his Sergeant's stripes and witnessed active service in France up until 22 June 1915, when he was seriously wounded by shell fragments to his legs and face at Givenchy. He was evacuated to 16th General Hospital at Le Treport - via No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station - and, following the amputation of his right leg on 9 July, he died of his wounds on the 15th.

Green, who was buried in the local war cemetery, is also commemorated on the Kamloops War Memorial, British Columbia; sold with copied research.


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