Walter Green (politician)

Walter Henry Green CBE, (1878 – 13 April 1958) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician for Deptford, elected in 1935 and MP until 1945.

[3] As part of his duties, on 22 March 1921, he unveiled the First World War memorial.

[4] Walter Green was elected Member of Parliament in the 1935 General Election, in which he gained the seat for Labour, with a majority of 6,892 (14.62%) over Conservative Prospective parliamentary candidate, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the then land and water speed record holder.

[5] Between 1935–1947, he was Political Secretary of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society,[6] the only Co-operative Society to be affiliated to the Labour Party nationally.

[6] He married Grace Edith Puddlefoot in 1904,[8] and together had a son and a daughter.

Deptford Town Hall c.1910, about the time that Walter Green became a town councillor