[2] In August 1915 the Revd Lanchester went over to France to serve as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, regularly writing up his experiences for the parish magazine, an example Green would follow assiduously for the next three years.
He was wounded by shrapnel at Arras on Easter Sunday, April 1917, while conducting divine service; gassed near Bullecourt in the Hindenburg line in August 1918 and also contracted trench fever.
His second (Bar) MC was given a full citation in the London Gazette on 9 December 1919: Between March 1916 and February 1919 Green wrote one letter per month for publication in St Barnabas's parish magazine, detailing his experiences on the Western Front.
Green returned to his chaplaincy at St Barnabas in 1919 and continued his parish work there until 1921 when he was appointed rector of All Saints church, Mundesley, Norfolk, where he remained until his death, after a short illness, in 1929, aged 47.
[9] In 2005 a commemorative plaque recording Green's life and service was placed on the north wall of St Barnabas's Church, Heigham, Norfolk, alongside the parish's Great War Roll of Honour.
A 3-CD set of the broadcast readings, 'Dear People ...', has been produced by St Barnabas church in Norwich, see: http://www.stbarnabasnorwich.org/letters-cd/ Field, Clive British Religion and the World Wars.