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BORN 4 December 1888
DIED 1 July 1916 AGE 27
VC Won 1 July 1916 AGE 27
Place VC Won Foncquevillers, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name John Leslie Green No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 716 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth 'Coneygarths', High Street, Buckden, Cambridgeshire, England
Place Of Death Foncquevillers, France
Buried/Location Ashes Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, 10 miles north of Albert, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 3, Row D, Grave 15
Gazetted 5 August 1916
VC Presented 7 October 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Edith Mary
Memorials
P Headstone, Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, 10 miles north of Albert, Pas de Calais, France
P Named On War Memorial, St Marys Churchyard, Buckden, Cambridgeshire
P Named On Family Memorial, Opposite Birthplace, 'Coneygarths', High Street, Buckden, Cambridgeshire
P Named On War Memorial, Houghton, Cambridgeshire
P Named On War Memorial, St Marys Church, Houghton, Cambridgeshire
Leslie Green Road, Houghton, Cambridgshire
P Memorial, Felsted School, Felsted, Essex
P Named on War Memorial, Felsted School, Felsted, Essex
Memorial, Dowing College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
P Named On War Memorial, St Bart's Hospital, City Of London
P Named On RAMC Memorial, St Peters Church, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
P Memorial Plaque, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
He hadn't quiet finished his medical studies at St Bart's Hospital, City of London, at the time of war breaking out, but he was a qualified Doctor
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Thank you to Jules Wallis, Archivist at Felsted School for photos of their Plaque and War Memorial
