William Wyndham Green

Educated at Malvern College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Green was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1907.[1][2]

He served in World War I latterly as a brigade major in France.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross for correcting gunfire from the top of a haystack 200 yards from the enemy front line in December 1914,[3] and a bar to the Military Cross for extinguishing a burning gun-pit under heavy fire in April 1917[4] and the Distinguished Service Order at Ploegsteert in April the following year.[5][6]

After attending the Staff College, Camberley, from 1919 to 1920, in 1926 he became an instructor in Gunnery at the School of Artillery.[1] In 1929 he went to India and served on the North West Frontier, before returning to the School of Artillery in 1937 as Chief Instructor for Equipment.[1] In 1938 he was appointed Commandant at the Royal Military College of Science.[1][6]

He served in World War II initially as Brigadier Royal Artillery at Northern Command and then, from March 1941 to October 1941, as Second in Command City and Garrison of Gibraltar.[1] In 1942 he became Commander of 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division and in 1943 he was made Commander of 5th and 6th Anti-Aircraft Groups.[1][7]

After the War he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Anti-Aircraft Command; he retired in 1946.[1][7] He was also a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1947 to 1952.[1]

The family home was at Little Gables in New Romney in Kent.[8] He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the county in 1949.[6]

In January 1916 he married Madge Alexandra Bellairs and had one daughter, then in 1924 he married Aline Hope Primrose Cobbold and they went on to have one son and a daughter.[9]

• Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.

• Generals of World War II