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{{Infobox military person
|name=Wilfrith Green
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|CMG|DSO|size=100%}}
|birth_name=Wilfrith Gerald Key Green
|birth_date= 3 November 1872
|death_date= 29 May 1937 (aged 64)
|birth_place=[[St Davids]], Pembrokeshire, Wales
|death_place=[[Penybont]], Radnorshire, Wales
|placeofburial=
|image=
|caption=
|alt=
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{UK}}
|branch= [[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Indian Army]]
|serviceyears=
|rank=[[Brigadier-General]]
|commands=[[10th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)|10th Cavalry Brigade]] [[1st Indian Cavalry Brigade]]
|unit=[[Green Howards]] [[East Yorkshire Regiment]] [[32nd Lancers]] [[36th Jacob's Horse]]
|battles=[[First World War]]
*[[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]
*[[Sinai and Palestine campaign]]
|awards=[[Order of the Bath]] [[Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Distinguished Service Order]]
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[[Brigadier-General]] '''Wilfrith Gerald Key Green''' {{Post-nominals|size=100%|CB|CMG|DSO}} (3 November 1872 – 29 May 1937) was a Welsh officer in the [[British Army]] and later a [[brigadier-general]] in the [[British Indian Army]]. In the [[First World War]] he served on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] and in the [[Sinai and Palestine campaign]], where he commanded the [[10th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)|10th Cavalry Brigade]]. He also commanded the [[1st Indian Cavalry Brigade]] in India after the war.

==Early life==
Green was born at [[St Davids]], Pembrokeshire, Wales the son of Alfred and Elizabeth Green, his father was a minor canon of [[St David's Cathedral]].

==British Army==
He was commissioned as a [[second-lieutenant]] into the 3rd Battalion, [[Green Howards]] (Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) on 19 November 1892, part of the [[militia]].<ref>{{London Gazette|date=19 November 1892|issue=26346|page=6478}}</ref> He later transferred to the regular battalions of the East Yorkshire Regiment. On 3 October 1897 he transferred from the [[East Yorkshire Regiment]], still as a second-lieutenant but with seniority from 7 December 1895 to the Indian Staff Corps after a period of probation.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=15 February 1898|issue=26978|page=3703}}</ref>

==Indian Army==
He was posted to the 32nd Lancers as of 20 March 1897.<ref>Indian Army List January 1908</ref> He was promoted Lieutenant 7 March 1898 and was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] 7 November 1904.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=17 February 1905|issue=27765|page=1208}}</ref>

He had transferred to the [[36th Jacob's Horse]] as a Squadron Commander 2 October 1910.<ref>Indian Army List April 1912</ref> He was [[Aide-de-Camp]] to the [[General Officer Commanding]] the [[3rd (Lahore) Division]] from 21 March 1911 to 15 October 1911.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=4 August 1911|issue=28519|page=5811}}</ref><ref>Quarterly Army List March 1922</ref>

This was followed with his promotion to [[major]] on 7 December 1913.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=13 January 1914|issue=28792|page=341}}</ref>

In the [[First World War]] 36th Jacob's Horse was in the [[8th (Lucknow) Cavalry Brigade]], part of the [[1st Indian Cavalry Division]], that was sent to the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in France in 1914. Green was appointed temporary commandant of the regiment 21 November 1915, a position he would hold, on and off, until 1921.<ref>The Scinde Horse 1836-1922 by Colonel E. B. Maunsell</ref> In December 1917, serving as a temporary [[lieutenant-colonel]] he was made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]].<ref>{{London Gazette|date=28 December 1917|issue=30450|supp=y|page=21}}</ref>

In April 1918 the Indian cavalry regiments to moved from France, to the [[Sinai and Palestine campaign]]. Green was given command of the [[10th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army)|10th Cavalry Brigade]] on 21 September 1918.<ref>Quarterly Army List March 1922</ref> At the time he was still only a substantive major, but now a [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] [[lieutenant-colonel]] and temporary [[brigadier-general]]. For his war service he was made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] in 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette|city=e|date=5 June 1919|issue=13454|page=1956}}</ref>

==Post war==
Following a successful war service Green was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in May 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=7 May 1920|issue=31891|page=5252}}</ref> That was followed by promotion to [[colonel]], and another brigade command, this time the [[1st Indian Cavalry Brigade]]. He was invested into the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1927, just before transferring to the unemployed list then finally retiring on 18 February 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=13 October 1922|issue=32755|page=7202}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|date=7 June 1927|issue=14345|page=645}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|date=18 December 1927|issue=33342|page=8374}}</ref><ref>Indian Army List January 1930 war services volume</ref>

==Family life==
Green married Lilian. His elder son Brigadier Percy William Powlett Green died on 23 February 2004. His younger son Wing Commander Wilfrith Peter Green was killed in action with the Royal Air Force on 1 March 1945.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2095412/GREEN,%20WILFRITH%20PETER Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Green, Wilfrith Peter]</ref> Green died at Penybont on 29 May 1937 aged 64.<ref>"Obituary." Times [London, England] 1 June 1937: 21. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 19 September 2013.</ref>

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[[Category:Indian Army cavalry generals of World War I]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:Green Howards officers]]
[[Category:East Yorkshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:People from St Davids]]

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