Vance James GREEN

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GREEN, Vance James

Service Number:	5612
Enlisted:	14 March 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 5 January 1886
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Warehouseman
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 February 1962, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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World War 1 Service

14 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5612, 21st Infantry Battalion
25 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 5612, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
25 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 5612, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
3 May 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5612, 21st Infantry Battalion, GSW - feet and left shoulder (severe) France
26 Sep 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5612, 21st Infantry Battalion, per HT A30 Borda for RTA
20 Feb 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5612, 21st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Vance James Green (Service No:5612) enlisted in the AIF on 14 March 1916 and embarked with 21st Infantry Battalion from Melbourne bound for Plymouth on 25 September 1916 on board HMAT A9 Shropshire. Private Green was WiA in France in May 1917 - GSW to feet and left shoulder (severe) and was evacuated to England. He embarked for Australia on 26 September 1917 on board HT Borda and was Discharged on 20 February 1918.

Born in 1886 in Melbourne Victoria, Vance was the third of six children of William Frederick Turnbull Green (b1857 in Wangaratta, Victoria) and Emma Crook (b1860 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria). William (a Bank Clerk) and Emma married in 1882 in Bacchus Marsh and settled in Melbourne where - apart from eight months in Brisbane, QLD - they lived and William worked as a Clerk. Emma and the children left William on several occasions due his drunkenness and domestic violence, and Emma filed for Divorce on those grounds in 1904.

Vance worked as a Labourer and Warehouseman in Melbourne where, in 1916, he married Maud Duggan (b1891 in Wagga Wagga, NSW). Vance and Maud settled in Melbourne where they raised their two sons and Vance worked as a Clerk and Publicity Agent. Vance died in 1962 and Maud in 1968.

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