59.5 Maternal Cousins of Alfred Squire

William and Mary Green had nine children, mainly in Stainborough nr Barnsley. Their children are Alfred's siblings and first cousins.

• 53.2.1 - John Green (1849-1918) m Annie Nelstrop (1847-1917)

• William Percy Green (1880-1964) 
• 1901/1911: at home at Primrose Cottage, Ecclesfield, a commercial traveller for the ironfoundry
• May have served with the RASC in WWI
• Married Ruth Tealor Wilson (1877-1961) in 1912
• By 1939, was MD of the foundry, i.e. he had inherited it (the history of the foundry was covered in Chapter 42)

• Ethel Nelstrop Green (1882-1968)
• 1911: at home in Ecclesfield, no occupation (29)
• 1938: living at The Old Hall, High Street, Ecclesfield with sister Hilda
• The Old Hall is a Grade II star listed building. "Former priory and house, now 3 dwellings. c. 1300 chapel block with altered contemporary crosswing and C19 restoration, house dated 1736." More on Wikipedia.

Ecclesfield Hall (Alan Boulton on Ecclesfield District Archives)

• Hilda Margaret Green (1888-1975)
• 1911: at home in Ecclesfield, a domestic science teacher for Sheffield Education Committee (22)
• 1938: living at The Old Hall, High Street, Ecclesfield with sister Ethel

• 53.2.2 - William Rowland Green (1851-1925) m Emily Nelstrop (1850-1879)

• Robert M Green (1879-1962)
• 1901/1911: under manager, then departmental manager at the iron foundry, his father being MD
• 1939: 66 Norfolk Road, Ecclesfield (near the foundry), ironworks manager

• == m Katherine Nelstrop (1854-1932)
• Herbert Green (1888-1961)
• Not found in 1911 - abroad?
• Married Elsie Maud Blanchard (1894-1989) before July 1916
• Elsie went to Australia on the SS Osterley in July 1916

SS Osterley (credit)

• Francis Nelstrop Green (1892-1972)
• He was a clerk.
• He volunteered for the Royal Navy in WWI, and served on HMS Sir Thomas Picton. This class of ship was built in 1915 to engage German shore artillery in occupied Belgium. The ship's original 12" main battery was stripped from the obsolete Majestic-class battleship HMS Mars. Mars was converted to a troop ship and, in a twist of fate, was covered by Sir Thomas Picton during the evacuation of Dardanelles, using her own former guns. Francis would have been on board for that action. He was invalided out of the Navy with sight problems in July 1916.

HMS Sir Thomas Picton (credit)

• In 1939, he was boarding in Hull, a Hire Purchase collector
• In 1972, he was at 216 Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, a retired Clerical Officer (Post Office)

• 53.2.3 - Richard Green (1853-1889) m Susanah Tofield Hibbs (1858-1939)

• Stewart Green (1882-1917)
• In 1911, at home in Woodhouse near Sheffield. He was a chartered accountant.
• He volunteered for 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion (Territorial Force), York and Lancaster Regiment WWI in September 1914, and served with a rank of Company Quartermaster Sergeant.
• The unit was formed in Sheffield, and moved to Doncaster, Gainsborough, and York; landed at Boulogne April 1915 and became 148th Brigade in 49th (West Riding) Division. The Division remained in France and Flanders, and took part in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, the defence against the first Phosgene attack, and at the Somme in 1916. In 1917, they took part in operations on the Flanders Coast, and The Battle of Poelcapelle, a phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.

Street Corner in Poelcapelle (US Army)

• The Divisions field guns were on the Wieltje–Gravenstafel road, west of the Steenbeek, with only a few forward. Transport of ammunition by pack animal was only possible to guns kept within 100–150 yds of roads. Journeys previously an hour long took from 6 to 16 hours, and the ammunition arrived coated with slime.
• Two brigades from the Division assembled behind Frezenberg and Potijze, about 2.5 miles from the jumping off line in support of the 66th Division, and Anzac divisions. The brigades were expected to cover the distance in five hours but the dark, rain, state of the ground and fitful German artillery fire caused serious delays. Staff officers were sent out to hurry on every man capable of going faster, rather than keeping units together. When the creeping barrage began, the troops who had arrived spread out and followed the barrage. The creeper was difficult to follow, because much of the field artillery was out of action, some of the rest fired inaccurately from unstable platforms and many high-explosive shells were smothered by the mud.
• On Passchendaele Ridge and the Wallemolen Spur, inadequate artillery support, the German pillboxes and extensive uncut barbed wire of the Flandern I Stellung (Flanders I Position), rain, mud, shell-hole machine-gun nests and counter-attacks, led the attackers being forced back towards their start lines. The Division began the attack exhausted from the conditions of the approach march and some units had not arrived when the attack began. This delay allowed German pillboxes to fire on other allied divisions.
• The New Zealand Division described finding wounded men:
  

  ... famished and untended on the battlefield.... Those that could not be brought back were dressed in the muddy shell holes.... On the morning of the 12th many of these unfortunate men were still lying upon the battlefield, and not a few had meantime died of exposure in the wet and cold weather.... Even before the attack, dressing stations and regimental aid posts as well as the battlefield itself were crowded with the wounded of the 49th (West Riding) Division.
  

  — Colonel Hugh Stewart

• Stewart died of wounds on 17 December 1917, and was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. The Division's memorial is at Essex Farm, Ypres.

49th Division Memorial, Ypres (credit)

• Maurice Green (1885-1956)
• In 1911, boarding at 6 Queen Villas, Oldfield Park, Bath. He was an ironmongery (company?) secretary.
• Married Winifred Anne Bischine
• Children:
• Derrick Aloise Green (1912-1948)

• Douglas Green (1886-1954)
• On the crew list of the Trafford Hall in 1911
• Married Elsie Wadsworth in Cairo, Egypt in 1916.
• Children:
• Dora Green (1917)
• Married Ethel Siddell (1885) in Blackley, Manchester
• Children:
• Stewart Green (1923)
• Marjorie Green (1926-1997)
• In 1939, at 2 Camping Lane, Sheffield, a physician and surgeon
• Died in Sheffield

• 53.2.4 - Harriet Green (1854-1941)
• See Chapter 59

• 53.2.5 - Henry Green (1856-1928) m Annie Squire (1858-1886)
• Annie was Alfred's aunt, so see Chapter 59.1b for more

• 53.2.6 - Mary Letitia Green (1858-1913)

• 53.2.7 - Charles Joseph Green (1861-1912) m Ann Goss (1861-1905)

• Maurice Green (1885-1958)
• May have been a schoolmaster who joined the freemasons in 1916
• May have emigrated, or visited New York in 1926

• Douglas Green (1887-1954?)
• No record found after 1891, and easy to confuse with Douglas Green (above)

• Dorothy Mabel Green (1892-1952) 
• Married Sidney John Beardshaw (1889-1979) in Rotherham in 1913

• Kathleen Marion Green (1900-1966)
• Married Frederick Archibald Betterton (1882-1967) in Calcutta in 1922
• Children:
• Joan Patricia Betterton (1923)
• Sailed to Bombay on the P&O ship SS Rawalpindi in 1925 (a year before John Alexander Lloyd Barnes travelled on the same ship), and returned on the RMS Viceroy of India in 1931.

SS Viceroy of India (postcard)

• Married Charles William Martin (1891-1960) in Mumbai in 1951

• 53.2.8 - Edwin Arthur Green (1863-1946) m Mary Elizabeth Tofield (1864-1917)

• Edwin Vincent Green (1897-1990)
• This is an unusual name. The death certificate in Droxford nr Southampton gives a birth date of 9/5/1897, which matches a birth record of Q2 1897.
• 1911: at school in Bath
• 1939: an Edwin V Green in Bath has a DOB of 16/9/1897, and is a manager at the Austin Motor Car Service Department.

• 53.2.9 - Walter Ernest Green (1865-1942) m Emily Potts (1876)

• Harold James Walter Green (1897-1897)
• Died in infancy

• William Ernest Green (1898-1917)

William Green (Dore Village Society)

• Served 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. They were formed in August 1914 in Londesborough Barracks, Hull, part of York and Durham Brigade, Northumbrian Division. Landed at Boulogne April 1915. The formation became 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division. They fought at various phases of the Second Battles of Ypres, and the Battles of the Somme.
•  Died on 31 October 1917, at age 19, during the Second Battle of Passchendaele.

(Nancy Wright on Findagrave)

• Mary Green (1900-1902)
• Died in infancy

• Letitia Marjorie Green (1903-1978)
• Never married and continued to live at Onchan Villas long after the War. 
• She was one of the earliest physiotherapists, and specialised in child polio patients (Dore Village).
• On the register of Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics (patroness: Her majesty the Queen) in 1935, with qualifications in massage, medical gymnastics and medical electricity. 

More on these individuals in Chapter 62.

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