Arthur Green (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green CMG DSO[1] was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.

Arthur Frank Umfreville Green
Green (left) with General Haking in 1918 at Spa.
Born	1878
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Brigadier-General
Commands held	4th Battalion, Sussex Home Guard
Battles/wars	Anglo-Boer War World War I World War II
Awards	Distinguished Service Order

Military career

Green was deployed in Flanders and in Italy. He served as a quartermaster general with the XI Corps and was part of the Inter-Allied Commission at the Spa Conference of 1920.[2] From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta.[2] In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.

Works

• As Down Of Thistle (1904) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[3]
• The Countermine (1905) under the Pen name Arthur Wenlock.[3]
• Landscape sketching for military purposes, London, Hugh Rees, 1908.[4]
• Evening Tattoo, 1940.[4]
• The British Home Guard Pocket-Book, 1940.[4]
• Questions Answered about Rifle Shooting, 1945.[4]

References

1. "haileybury.com". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
2. Stanley Paul: "Evening Tattoo. By Brigadier-General A. F. U. Green." The Spectator
3. "The British Home Guard Pocketbook", 1940
4. John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, 2005, University of Alberta Press, ISBN 978-0888644367, p.366