John Leslie Green

John Leslie Green

John Leslie Green VC (4 December 1888 - 1 July 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was 27 years old, and a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, attached to 1/5th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

:On 1 July 1916 at Foncquevillers, France, Captain Green, although wounded himself, rescued an officer who had been wounded and was caught up in the enemy's wire entanglements. He dragged him to a shell hole where he dressed his wounds, notwithstanding the bombs and grenades being thrown at him the whole time. Captain Green then tried to bring the wounded officer to safety and had nearly succeeded when he was himself killed.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum "(Aldershot, England)".

Leslie Green has a road named after him in Houghton, Cambridgeshire.

ee also

*Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
*The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
*VCs of the First World War - The Somme (Gerald Gliddon, 1994)

External links

* [http://www.jwhalley.freeserve.co.uk/Notts%20&%20Derbys/VC's.html The Victoria Cross Awards to the Sherwood Foresters] "(photos, site includes other articles on SF)"


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