College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Crescent Road (Senr. M.) C.S., Middlesborough
Service number
26148
WW1 rank
Lance Corporal
Yorkshire Regiment, 9th Battalion
Date of death
6 October 1916
Location of death
Le Sars, Battle of the Somme
Buried/memorial
Thiepval Memorial (Grave/Memorial reference: Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D)
Biography
Lance Corporal Walter Wilfred Green was the son of John Andrew and Rose Lydia Green, born in Stockton. He attended Borough Road College for two years, where he played cricket. Green graduated the college with an Intermediate Arts qualification and is listed as being destined for a school in Middlesborough. He returned to Stockton to enlist into the 9th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. Green was killed in an attack on the village of Le Sars during the Battle of the Somme on 6 October 1916.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, BRCCR010, http://www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/html-files/stockton-on-tees/stockton-yorks-dead-g.htm, Commonwealth War Graves Commission