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When Zebulun Green was born on January 30, 1896, in Broomehill, Western Australia, his father, George, was 28 and his mother, Bridget, was 32. He married Helena Mena Sweetman on January 2, 1920, in Perth, Western Australia. They had six children in 10 years. He died on May 31, 1943, in Queensland, at the age of 47, and was buried in Adelaide River, Northern Territory.

Date of Birth on Army documents given as 1 December 1895

His family say Zeb was an expert roller skater and welter-weight boxer.  Also he was very musical and could play any instrument he picked up.

His son Geoffrey recalls his father telling him that he and his brother George, were both good roller skaters - they could both jump three crates high.  Together they used to travel to Perth to participate in skating competitions which one or the other usually won.  They used to "pick up" young women to teach them to skate.

According to Geoffrey, Zeb took up 1500 acres of Soldier Settlement land east of Carnamah.  His father gave him a team of horses at Broomehill which he drove to Carnamah to start work on his land.  He cleared the land with an axe and lived off the bush eating kangaroo & duck etc.  He had the property cleared and fenced when the land became salted!  By 1926 only 400 acres of land remained workable, so the family left.

After leaving, Zeb went wheat lumping and took any jobs that were available.  When the wheat lumping cut out, through the depression, he worked on the roads.  In the depression, road work provided sustenance - married men worked 2 weeks and had 1 week off, single men worked 1 week and had 1 weeks off.   Zeb had the first tipper truck, a Chev 4 working on the roads.  Evidently to get the tipper working you had to back up fast to a log, where the sudden stop caused the back of the truck to tip up and the load would slide off.  To reset the truck you drove forward, fast, and then braked suddenly and the tray slid back into position.

On one occasion when the "Whites versus the Blacks" football game was on in Carnamah Zeb blackened himself and played with the blacks.  He swore later when he tried to scrub off the black shoe polish.

Before WW1 Zeb was employed by the State Railways and between the wars he eventually returned to work for the railways.

In WW1 Zeb was not obedient so he was not popular with the Officers.  Evidently at one stage he was made Batman to Colonel Applebee.  This was not quite what Zeb expected of army life.  There was a very important parade on so Zeb cleaned the Colonel's saddle with brown shoe polish.  The end result was the Colonel's white pants got very dirty and Zeb was relieved of Batman duties.  Another family member tells how when Zeb was on guard duty one night, a very senior English Officer (? Col Sweetapple) approached the guard (Zeb) and when challenged refused to give the password.  As a result was hit by Zeb.

Geoff recalls also his father saying that he visited his Saunders relations when he was in the UK during the first war.  It is possible that the Saunders in Three Springs are related.

When Geoff joined up for WW11 so did Zeb!

WW1 records show that:9/11/14 enlisted No. 726, at Blackboy Hill in the 2nd Reinforcement 10th Light Horse
22/2/15 embarked - destination and ship not known
11/9/15 at Alexandria embarked for the front
17/9/15 joined regiment at Anzac
8/10/15 reported wounded - shrapnel buttock
11/11/15 reported not wounded
26/12/15 desembarked at Alexandria
26/2/16 marched out to Serapeum ex Heliopolis
20/10/16 sick to hospital
24/10/16 to 31 GH
25/10/16 something at Pt Said
4/11/16 discharged 31 GH "Fit for Duty"
6/11/16 - 12/2/17 on strength 3rd LHT Reg
12/2/17 taken on strength 10th LH
2/7/17 - 22/5/18 repeated hospitalisations for various illness and rest camps
9/7/18 taken on strength 10th LH EEF
15/10/18 awarded Military Medal for "Acts of Gallantry and Devotion to Duty in Field.
More Illness
24/7/19 embarked HT "Dongola" Suez for Australia - Hammer Toe
His war record was researched by grand nephew Andrew Baxter.

WW1 - Enlisted.  He volunteered for 10th LH regiment and was alloted as 2nd reinforcement to the regiment.  His regimental particulars were 726 Trooper ZebularGreen, C Troop, C Squadron, 10th Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade, 1st Australian Imperial Forces.  The information was easy to obtain as he was the only Z Green to enlist in the 1 AID and secondly has  was awarded the Military Medal - in the original citation his name was misspelt.

Gallopoli - He landed at Gallipoli near Plugge's Plateau on 21 May 1915.  He was wounded at the charge at Nek' (the charged portrayed in the movie 'Gallipoli').  The battle took place on 7 August 1915, by the 8th & 10th LH regiments.  The regiments charged across 30 - 40 yards along a narrow piece of ground, under flanking and frontal fire of approx. 30 machine guns.  They suffered heavy casualties - the 8th LH lost 240 men, 3/4 of their strength, including the Commanding Office Colonel White.  The 10th LH lost 136 men - roughly over half their strength.  This was one of the bravest charges that ever took place. The first wave comprised of the 8th LH, they had no idea of what would happen when they left their trench.  Some say they actually entered the enemy trench.  By the time the 2nd wave, comprising A & B Squadrons 10th LH charged, there was no doubt that they would not suceed and everyone who charged would either be killed or wounded.  The 3rd wave to charge comprised C Squadron and the remainder of B Squadron.These men had now seen at least 300 men mowed down before them, on a piece of ground no bigger than a tennis court.  As a member of C Squadron, Zeb Green was one of those men and somewhere on that small patch of soil he was wounded.

Jordan - During the desert campaign 1916 - 1918 he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery under fire on three separate occasions.  It is the researcher's belief that if the author of the citation had better literacy skills or included more detail, the award may have been higher.

Citation for Military Medal -  726 Trooper Zebular Green. Trooper Green has displayed great bravery on several occasions during the recent operations.  He was one of the advance patrol that forced the ford over the JORDAN above JISR BENAT YAKUB on 27 September 1918, in the face of heavy machine gun and rifle fire.  Here Trooper VIVEASH was mortally wounded when Trooper GREEN utterly disregarding his own personal safety, carried him under cover, rendered first aid and then continued on his task.  At SASA on the early morning of 30th September 1918 he reconnoitred at great personal risk the enemy's position and gave information which led to the final scouting of the German rear guard.  Again on 1st October, 1918 in opposition against the enemy rear guard at DUMA on the DAMASCUS- ALLEPPO road, GREEN was in the forefront of the squadron's attack through, where by his personal dash and bravery, he did much toward the final capture of the enemy's rear guard.

(From the Central Army records Office compiled 22 Feb 1988.)

WWII - Zeb served in WWII - overseas at one stage, then was returned to Australia to be discharged on medical grounds.  He immediately enlisted in the ACMF and was killed in a MVA while in the Australian Army Labour Service, ACMF 7 Employment Company training Chinese in Mt Isa 31/5/1943.

It is said in the army he wore three dog tags: one to say he was RC for his mother; one to say he was SDA for his wife; and one to say he was a BB (Bush Baptist) for himself.

For his army service he was awarded:

Military Medal,  1914/15 Star, British War Medal 1914 -1920, Victory Medal 1914 - 1918, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939 - 1945, Australian Service Medal 1939 - 1945, ANZAC Commemorative Medalion.

FACTS: 

19 November 1914 WW1 - enlised in 10th Light Horse - No 726
1918 - awarded MM
2 January 1920 married
16 April 1940 Enlised WWII
3 November 1941 Returned to Asutralia - discharged from Army on medical grounds, enlised CMF
31 May 1943 Killed MVA Mt Isa in 7 Aust Emp Company
14 May 1945 reburied in Adelaide River War Cemetery Grave C.C 9
His death certificate list;

Intrathoracic Haemorrhage
Multiple fractured ribs
laceration of lungs
Fractured pelvis.
Post mortem was held at Mt Isa on 1 June 1943 by EJ Ryan.  Coroners Inquest held at Mt Isa on 20 August 1943 by LH Roles Mt Isa Coroner.

 
TAKEN FROM THE WINCHESTER TIMES NEWSPAPER

"Zeb" Zebulun GREEN
Born 30 January 1896 in Broome Hill, Western Australia 
Son of George GREEN and Bridget Mary Ellen REILLY 
Farmer at an unknown location in 1914 [
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 19 November 1914 
     Gave his mother as his next of kin, her address at the time being Broomehill WA 
     Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A50 Itonuson 19 February 1915 
     Driver 726 in the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Light Horse during the First World War; was awarded the Military Medal 
In November 1919 his engagement was announced to Miss Helena M. GREEN of Donnybrook Farm in Arrino [9: 14-Nov-1919]
Married "Lena" Helena Mena SWEETMAN in Perth in 1920 
Farmer of York Grove Farm in Carnamah 1921-1923 
     His 882 acre farm was Victoria Location 7186 on the Soldier Settlement Scheme's Carnamah Estate[
     Unsuccessfully applied to also take up the 1,232 acre Victoria Location 7185, which was also part of the Carnamah Estate 
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1922 - he was "one of the most popular players of the team"
Member of the Carnamah Amateur Concert Party in 1922 
     Himself and his wife performed a dialogue at the Carnmah Amateur Concert Party's Concert on 7 September 1922 
Splendidly fulfilled the position of Father Christmas at the Christmas Tree held in Carnamah on 15 December 1922 [
     Was complimented on the way he filled the role, his witty remarks resulting in laughter from the adults and children present 
Farewelled by the Carnamah Football Club at the Footballers Smoke Social at the Carnamah Hall on Tuesday 23 January 1923 
     During the evening Carnamah farmer Richard ROBERTSON spoke of his "good fellowship and popularity in the district" 
     In response he said he would always look upon his time spent in Carnamah as one of the happiest in his life 
     Also said that the people of Carnamah "were the finest lot of people and sports he had ever had the pleasure to be amongst" 
Left Carnamah during early 1923 however by October 1926 himself and his family had returned to the district 
     On their return he appears to have resumed farming, as he had the telephone connected to his farm in 1926 and 1927 
     His house on the farm was telephone number Carnamah-11A 
     Upon enrolling to vote in 1927 his wife enrolled with an address of Hillside Farm in Carnamah [19]
     When only partly developed he appears to have sold his 882 acre farm in Carnamah to Samuel E. BROAD [
Commission Agent in Carnamah from 1926 to 1929 
     His agency business in Carnamah was telephone number Carnamah-24 
     Resided with his family at 24 Slater Street in the Carnamah townsite, which was then on the corner of Yarra Yarra Road [
     Also worked as a Fencing Contractor in Carnamah in 1928 and 1929 
     Labourer in Carnamah 1930-1933 
Put in a tender to the Carnamah Road Board to clear 1½ miles of road near Winchester in 1927 - his tender was accepted
Member of the team of married men who defeated a team of single men at cricket in Carnamah in November 1928 
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son in the 1920s and 1930s 
In August 1930 was contracted by the Carnamah District Road Board to clear Reading Road in Carnamah He also worked for local farmers doing work such as ploughing and training horses 
In 1932 had a hired Chevrolet truck which license plate CA-12 
Rendered a vocal or elocutionary item at the R.S.L. Smoke Social and Friends Night held in Carnamah on 27 August 1932 
Member of John BOWMAN's XI who competed against the Carnamah Cricket Club at the opening of the 1932-33 season 
Competitor in John A. KENNY's 2nd Billiard Tournament conducted within Mackie's Buildings in Carnamah in 1933 
In October 1933 he was employed by the Main Roads Board on a carting contract for the Mingenew-Mullewa Road 
During October his wife and children left Carnamah to join him at Mingenew 
By November 1933 he was working in Geraldton, but was still employed on a contract with the Main Roads Board 
His wife and children left Carnamah on Thursday 2 November 1933 to join him in Geraldton for six months 
They later resided with him in Dongara before returning to Carnamah in mid May 1935 
Later in 1935 he was living and working in Yalgoo however his wife and children continued to live in Carnamah 
After spending a few days with his wife and children in Carnamah he returned to Yalgoo on Monday night 5 August 1935 [
Labourer in Dongara in 1938 and in Gunyidi 1939-1941 
Resided in the Perth suburb of Bickley prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 11 November 1941
Sergeant W42521 in the Australian Army's 7 Employment Company during the Second World War 
Died from injuries on 31 May 1943 in Queensland, Australia 
Buried at the Adelaide River War Cemetery in the Northern Territory of Australia [
His name appears on the Arrino Roll of Honour, presumably because his wife had come from Arrino 
Father of Geoff, Monica, Rex, Elva, and twins Judith and Rae