Q.S.A, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Pte. , 1/Oxfd. L.I.) engraved naming, K.S.A., 2 clasps, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (Pte. Oxford: L.I.), 1914-15 trio (Cpl. R. Berks. R.), Memorial Plaque (Frederick William Green)
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Frederick William Green was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in 1871 and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Cowley Barracks, Oxford, on 27 September 1889. Appointed Lance-Corporal on 21 November 1891, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 27 September 1896, but was recalled to the Colours on 4 December 1899, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 December 1899 to 14 September 1902. He was discharged on 11 May 1903, after 13 years and 228 days’ service.
Following the outbreak of the Great War Green enlisted in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 August 1915. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
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