Arthur Green (British Army officer)


Brigadier-General Arthur Frank Umfreville Green was a senior British Army officer in World War I and author of several publications.

Military career

Green was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 December 1897, and in March 1900 was seconded for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War, leaving Southampton on the SS Umbria late that month. During World War I he was deployed in Flanders and in Italy. He served as a quartermaster general with the XI Corps and was part of the Inter-Allied Commission at the Spa Conference of 1920. From 1920 to 1924 he was commanded to Malta. In World War II he commanded the 4th battalion of the Sussex Home Guard.