- Type of Memorial
- Stone of remembrance
- WMR Reference Number
- 177
- Description
- Rough hewn stone of remembrance set on a square pyramidal base with the inscription in leaded lettering. Attached to the fence behind the stone is a blue metal plaque detailing the names of the men on the memorial.
- Inscription
- Memorial stone: A MEMORIAL OF PEACE/ AND OF HONOUR TO ALL THOSE/ PARISHIONERS WHO SERVED IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1919./ THIS SITE WAS GIVEN BY/ J. G. GREEN ESQ J.P./ IN MEMORY OF HIS TWO SONS/ CAPT J. L. GREEN. V.C. AND/ LIEUT A. GREEN./
Memorial plaque: THE GREEN MEMORIAL/ SECOND-LIEUTENANT ALAN GREEN of the 1/5th South Staffords was killed on 13th/ October 1915 during the 46th Division's assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt near Loos-en-/ Gohelle, Belgium. The Division lost 180 officers and 3,583 men in the first 10 minutes of battle./
His brother, CAPTAIN JOHN GREEN, RAMC, Medical Officer to the 1/5th Sherwood/ Foresters, was awarded a posthumous VC for his conspicuous devotion to duty during the/ morning of 1st July 1916 - the first day of the Battle of the Somme./
Approaching the enemy lines he found a badly wounded fellow officer caught up in the wire/ and suffering greatly. Although himself injured, he managed to free the man and drag him to a/ nearby shell-hole. Here he dressed his wounds while under almost constant attack from bombs/ and rifle grenades. He then sought to get his colleague back across No Man's Land to safety./ They had almost succeeded when the wounded man was hit again. John Green stopped to help/
him, only to be hit and killed instantly. His body was not recovered until the following spring./ At the time of his death he was 26 years old and had been married for six months-to the day./ This memorial stands on land that belonged to Coneygarths, the home of the Green family for/ several generations.