Roll of Honour 2023

A CCIDENTALLY 1947

P AGE 287

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name KENNETH GAGE CRICHTON GREEN (Lt)

Lef SES 1941

Set / House G

Roll Number 3191 Died 10:09:1947

Arrive SES 1937

Where GREECE Serving with SHERWOOD FORESTERS

Age 24

Buried Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece Remembered Not on any St. Edward’s School Memorial* - NEEDS CORRECTING.

Born Ashton, Lancs 1923, the son of an Army Major. He was a House Prefect, Corporal in the JTC and in the Modern VIth Form. ‘He came from an army family and was destined for an army career from nearly age. In spite of poor eyesight his determination carried him through’ (Chronicle). He joined an Officer Cadet Training Unit in 1941 and was commissioned in the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters) later the same year. Throughout he had to fight against problems with his eyesight and eventually achieved his ambition late in the war as an Infantry Subaltern - ‘one of that gallant band of unsung heroes’ (Chronicle), He survived the war but ‘met his death through a tragic accident (gunshot wounds) for which his defective eyesight was largely responsible’ (Chronicle). No further details available.