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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 440

Herefordshire Regiment

Pair: Corporal J. Green, 1/1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment, who was killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (236482 Pte. J. Green, Hereford. R.), one or two edge bruises, very fine or better (2)

James Green was born at Bosbury, Herefordshire on 7 January 1895, the son of James and Mary Ann Green, and was educated at the local Free Grammar School. He enlisted in the Herefordshire Regiment in June 1915 and served in Egypt and Palestine from June 1917, up until his death in action at the Third Battle of Gaza on 6 November.

On 27 October, the Hereford's were one of two battalions sent to relieve the cut-off and surrounded Yeomanry on Hill 720, the scene of a V.C. action. For the Third Battle, the Battalion was deployed to the area known as the Khuweilfeh Heights and for three full days were pinned down, heavy machine-gun and sniper fire erupting at the slightest movement; for two days no water or rations were able to make it to the beleaguered men. The scene was witness to a further V.C. when Captain J. F. Russell of the R.A.M.C. was shot dead whilst tending the wounded. Private Green was killed in action on the third day of this battle, which took the lives of six officers and 80 men, with a further five officers and 103 men wounded.

The recipient of a certificate won at the Imperial School of Instruction for Musketry, signed by General Allenby, he is buried in Gaza War Cemetery; The Roll of Honour, refers.


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