Samuel Green (priest)
British Army chaplain (1882-1929)
The Reverend Samuel Frederick Leighton Green, MC and Bar (6 April 1882 – 29 May 1929) was a British Army chaplain who served in France and Belgium between 1916 and 1919.
Birth and education
Green was born in Greenwich in 1882, the elder son of Catherine Green and Frederick Green, a civil servant at the War Office. He was educated at King's College School, London, and St Paul's Theological College, University of London.
Early chaplaincy
In 1904 Green was appointed assistant curate at St Bartholomew's church, Heigham, Norwich as a deacon of the Church of England. In 1905 he was ordained a priest by the Rt Revd John Sheepshanks, bishop of Norwich. In 1912 he transferred to St Barnabas's Church, Heigham as assistant priest to the Revd Charles Compton Lanchester.
First World War
In August 1915 the Revd Lanchester went over to France to serve as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, regularly writing up his experiences for the parish magazine, an example Green would follow assiduously for the next three years. After Lanchester returned to the parish at the end of 1915 Green volunteered to join the Army Chaplains' Department. He was commissioned with the rank of Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class in February 1916 and sent over to France almost immediately.
His first post was to a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS 22) in Aire-sur-la-Lys and later in Bruay, where he also acted as padre to RFC Squadron No.
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