CAPTAIN CLIFFORD WHITTINGTON GREEN
1ST BTTN ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT
27TH JUNE 1915 AGE 24
BURIED: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
The full text of Clifford Whittington-Green's inscription, chosen by his mother, reads:
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1 & 2
Clifford Whittington Green was commissioned into the 1st Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 14 August 1914, joining them in France on 27 November. He took part in the fighting that winter, most particularly at Givenchy on 22 December and at Richebourg on 20 May 1915. On 26 June 1915, whilst trying to get this men under cover from German shelling, Whittington-Green he was hit, dying of his wounds the next day. A First World War Memorial site for St Leonard's Church, Sunningwell gives an extensive overview of his family and war service.