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March 1891 - 22/12/1914

Place of birth: Northampton
Last known address in Bromley: 20 Scotts Road

Military information

Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion/Ship: 6th Bty
Rank: Driver
Number: 58311

Family information

Parents: Herbert Early & Clara Green (nee Green)
Parents' occupation: Lino-type printer
Siblings: None
Wife: Annie May Blagden
Marriage date: 1914
Children: Florence Clara May

Census information

1891
Address: 42 Queens Road, Northampton
1901
Address: 10 Haxted Road
1911
Address: Army

Extra details

Frederic was the only child of Herbert and Clara Green. Sadly Clara died when Frederic was nearly two years old. By 1897 Herbert had moved to Bromley where he married Sarah Jane Albert, and when she died in 1906, he married Alice Amelia Gasson in 1908. Herbert died in 1918. Frederic attended Wharton Road School and Bromley Parish School.

He was always keen to be a soldier so as soon as he was old enough he joined the 5th Battalion of the RWKR (Territorials), but after a few months enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Special Reserve). After his first training he transferred to the Royal Field Artillery. After completing his service with the Colours he returned to Bromley and married Annie May Blagden in May 1914. He was amongst the first to be called up when war broke out. Nothing more was heard about him until the War Office notified the fact that he had been wounded , shortly after a card was received from him.

"Just a few lines to let you know that I am all right. I have been wounded in the thigh and have been laying on my back for a fortnight; still, it might have been worse. It was a shell splinter two inches long and half an inch thick. It went in six inches. We are in France now in a hospital held by the Germans. They treat us very well; plenty to eat and drink. We are going to Germany by the first train to a big hospital. There we shall stop until the war is over, which I hope won't be long now".

Notification of his death came from a friend in the same hospital saying that Frederic's wounds were healing well and he was able to walk about. Unfortunately he contracted typhus fever and died.

Frederic is also remembered on St Mary's Church memorial as E H Green.