[14] On 30 September 1934 Green was appointed to command the 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade,[15] with the temporary rank of brigadier from 24 November 1937.
[20] His citation read: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst assisting in extinguishing a fire at the brigade ammunition dump.
On hearing than an officer of his company had been severely wounded, he at once went sixty yards across the open, under heavy shell fire, and helped to bring him to the rear aid post, carrying one end of the stretcher himself.
[21]Green received the Territorial Decoration on 5 May 1925,[22] was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire on 2 November 1935,[23] and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1937 Coronation Honours.
[24] As Commandant of the Lancashire Special Constabulary he was made an Additional Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year's Honours[25] and as Chairman of the Civil Defence Committee, Lancashire County Council, he was advanced to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 Birthday Honours.