Herbert Walter Green DSO (2 April 1878 – 31 December 1918) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Walter James and Maria Jane Green, he was born in April 1878 at Watford.
[2] After graduating from Oxford, he received a university commission into The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) as a second lieutenant in May 1900.
[7] He was seconded for service with the Colonial Office in September 1910,[8] where he was sent to Nigeria to serve with the Royal West African Frontier Force.
Promoted to major in September 1915,[10] he was posted to France in 1916 and briefly commanded a battalion of the Essex Regiment,[2] while holding the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel.