| 词条 | Wilfred Green (RAF officer) |
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| name = Wilfrid Barratt Green | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1898|4|9}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1947|9|13|1898|4|9}} | birth_place = Burslem, Staffordshire, England | death_place = Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army Royal Air Force | serviceyears = 1917–1919 | rank = Captain | unit = London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) No. 32 Squadron RAF | commands = | battles = World War I {{*}}Western Front | awards = Distinguished Flying Cross Légion d'Honneur (France) Croix de Guerre (France) | relations = | laterwork = }} Captain Wilfrid Barratt Green[1] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DFC}} (9 April 1898 – 13 September 1947{{refn|group=note|The Sentinel article gives 13 November as his date of death.[2]}}) was an English World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.[2] BiographyHe was the second son of Thomas Seaman and Louisa Green of Burslem.[3] His father was a grocer, baker, and provision dealer,[4] who served as a member of the borough council, as a councillor for the East Ward, in 1906–1908.[5] His older brother Thomas Seaman Green (1895–1917), served as a lieutenant in No. 3 Squadron RFC and was killed in action near Heilly, on 13 February 1917, aged 22.[6][7][8] Green enlisted into the 28th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) as a private (No. 765446) in 1917.[9][10]{{refn|group=note|The 760000 series of six digit service numbers were issued from January 1917.[11]}} At this time the Artists' Rifles battalions were officer training units, which supplied 10,256 officers to other units over the course of the war.[12] Green was transferred to the General List to be appointed a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Royal Flying Corps on 12 August 1917.[13] He was confirmed in his rank and appointed a flying officer on 15 October 1917.[14] Green was assigned to No. 32 Squadron, flying the S.E.5a single-seat fighter. He gained his first aerial victory on 2 April 1918, the day after the Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) were merged to form the Royal Air Force, by driving down a Pfalz D.III out of control north-east of Moreuil. Several weeks later, on 16 May he sent another Pfalz D.III down in flames over Fresnes. On 9 June 1918, by then a lieutenant, he was appointed temporary captain,[15] and served as flight commander of "B" Flight.[16] July 1918 proved the high point of Green's combat career, driving down a Pfalz D.III over Dormans on the 15th, and a Fokker D.VII over Tréloup the next day. On 22 July he drove down another D.VII over Mont-Notre-Dame, and on the 25th another D.VII over Fismes. He gained his seventh and final victory on 23 August, destroying a Fokker D.VII east of Douai.[2] Green finally left No. 32 Squadron on 8 September 1918.[16] On 29 November 1918 his award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted, the citation reading: Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Wilfred Barrat Green A bold and very gallant officer who has destroyed two enemy aeroplanes and driven down five out of control. He has also shown a fine offensive spirit in engaging ground targets during the recent battles, using his machine guns with great effect.[17] On the same day he also received permission to wear the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur awarded by France.[18] He also received the Croix de Guerre avec Palme from France. His permission to wear it was gazetted on 11 July 1919.[19] In November 2014 it was announced that a street in the new Smithfield city centre business district of Stoke-on-Trent will be named after him, alongside others named after local men who served in the First World War.[20] Notes1. ^This is the form of his name used in the military service records of the National Archives, but the London Gazette and other sources sometimes use Wilfrid and Barrat. 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/green4.php |title=Wilfrid Barratt Green |work=The Aerodrome |year=2015 |accessdate=13 February 2015 }} 3. ^{{London Gazette |date=10 November 1931 |issue=33770 |page=7274 |nolink=yes}} 4. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.thepotteries.org/potworks_wk/132.htm |title=The Nile Street Works, Burslem |work=Notes of the local history of Stoke-on-Trent, England |year=2011 |quote=From the 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel "Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District" |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.thepotteries.org/1907/burslem/institutions.htm |title=Burslem Public Institutions, 1907 |work=thepotteries.org |year=2011 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/271085/GREEN,%20THOMAS%20SEAMAN |title=Casualty Details: Green, Thomas Seaman |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |accessdate=29 July 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web |url= http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80192&page=18 |title=War Memorials: Glos., Staffs., Cheshire, Derby & other counties |work=Great War Forum |year=2015 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/world-war-1-2c-2-war-memorials-and-commemorative-memorials/p59853-fenton-parish-church-memorial-staffs.html |title=War Memorial, Christ Church, Fenton, Staffordshire |work=Military Photos Website |date=16 August 2010 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web |url= http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2437838 |title=Medal card of Green, Wilfred Barratt |work=The National Archives |year=2015 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 10. ^{{cite book |title=The regimental roll of honour and war record of the Artists' Rifles |url=https://archive.org/stream/regimentalrollof00highiala#page/170/mode/2up |last=Highman |first=S. Stagoll |location=London | publisher=Howlett & Son |edition=3rd |year=1922 |page=171 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web |url= http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/28th-county-of-london-battalion-london.html |title=28th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) |first=Paul |last=Nixon |work=Army Service Numbers 1881-1918 |date=14 January 2009 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 12. ^{{cite book |title=The regimental roll of honour and war record of the Artists' Rifles |page=xviii |url=https://archive.org/stream/regimentalrollof00highiala#page/xviii/mode/2up |last= Highman |first=S. Stagoll |year=1922 |edition=3rd |location=London, UK |publisher=Howlett & Son |accessdate=29 July 2016}} 13. ^{{London Gazette |date=11 September 1917 |supp=y |issue=30279 |page=9424 |nolink=yes}} 14. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30367 |date=2 November 1917 |page=11436 |supp=y |nolink=yes }} 15. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30764 |date=25 June 1918 |page=7487 |nolink=yes }} 16. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.32.airwar1.org.uk/32%20sqn%20misc.htm |title=32 Squadron Pilots |work=No. 32 Squadron RFC/RAF 1918 |year=2011 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} 17. ^{{London Gazette |date=29 November 1918 |supp=y |issue=31046 |page=14321 |nolink=yes}} 18. ^{{London Gazette |date=29 November 1918 |supp=y |issue=31042 |page=14204 |nolink=yes}} 19. ^{{London Gazette |date=11 July 1919 |supp=y |issue=31457 |page=8986 |nolink=yes}} 20. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Staffordshire-s-Great-War-heroes-immortalised/story-24529228-detail/story.html |title=Staffordshire's Great War heroes to be immortalised in street names |first=Matthew |last=Simpson |newspaper=The Sentinel |location=Stoke-on-Trent |date=13 November 2014 |accessdate=13 February 2015}} References{{reflist|30em}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Wilfred}} 10 : 1898 births|1947 deaths|People from Burslem|London Regiment soldiers|Royal Flying Corps officers|Royal Air Force personnel of World War I|British World War I flying aces|Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur|Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) |
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