PRIVATE 346272 GEORGE VYVIEN GREEN, ARMY SERVICE CORPS, (MOTOR TRANSPORT). DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES, 17th JANUARY 1918, AGED 25 YEARS.


PRIVATE 346272 GEORGE VYVIEN GREEN, ARMY SERVICE CORPS, (MOTOR TRANSPORT). DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES, 17th JANUARY 1918, AGED 25 YEARS.



George Green was born in Ilkley the only son of Robert and Edith Green who owned and ran an ironmongers shop at 24, The Grove. A pupil at Ilkley Grammar School he worked for his father after completing his education.

He does not appear to have been conscripted into the forces in 1916 but instead was involved in munitions work at a chemical plant in Castleford. However, after just 4 months this employment ceased as George was deemed unfit to continue. Ill health may have been the reason why he was not accepted by the army until late 1917 when a shortage of manpower meant that medical standards were lowered.

George was posted to a motor transport unit of the Army Service Corps which was based in Isleworth, London where in mid January 1918 he became ill with what was diagnosed as capillary bronchitis. Admitted to the Hounslow General Hospital he died two days later.

The body of George Green was returned to his family in Ilkley and today he lies in the town's cemetery and is remembered with pride on our war memorial



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