Lewis Last Green

A Private with 1st Bn., Lewis died on 30th of January 1915 at the age of 24. 

Lewis was born at Lowestoft on 3 November 1891, a son of Lewis Last Green and Harriett Green. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 2 December 1891, and his family lived at 38 Stanford Street. In 1901 his family lived at 129 Wollaston Road. Lewis attended the British School, Lowestoft, and from 16 September 1901 was a pupil at Saint Margaret's School, Lowestoft. His mother died in 1906 and his father remarried and the family lived at 18 Stanford Street, Lowestoft.

In 1911 Lewis was living at Tyllwyd Mawr, Llangunnor, near Carmarthen, and he worked as a farm servant for William Jones.

Lewis enlisted in the Army at Great Yarmouth in June/July 1914. He joined the Norfolk Regiment. On 23 November 1914 he arrived in France to join the 1st Battalion and probably was one of 90 reinforcements that joined the Battalion in the field on 2 December 1914. 

On 28 January 1915 the 1st Battalion took over trenches, near Wulvergem. The Battalion War Diary states that these were bad tranches and there was considerable sniping. The War Diary entry for 30 January 1915 has:

Hard frost. One killed six wounded.