Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Septimus Estwyn Joseph Green, a shoe manufacturer’s manager, born on the 4th August 1862 in Leicester (son of George Green and Mary West) and his wife Amelia Green (nee Scott), born 1862 in Waterford, Ireland. Richard Scott was born in the 2nd quarter of 1895 in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, he had one sibling, James Scott, born on the 26th December 1896 in Kirby Muxloe, in March 1901 the family home was at 35, Kirby Road, Leicester. In April 1911 Richard was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at 21, Fosse Road Central, Leicester, together with his father, a commercial traveller, his mother and brother James, a schoolboy.
Richard’s Army enlistment documents were not researched, and as such all that is known of his military service is that he was commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment, and was posted as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and it was to join this unit that he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 1st May 1915. Nothing more is known of his service until he was reported to have been killed in action during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt that commenced on the 13th October 1915. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France. Richard was awarded the 1914-15 STAR, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
The War Diary records: 12 Oct-15 - At 9.00 am Battalion marched to SAILLY LABOURSE. Dinners and teas were cooked here. Rations for 134 men issued. At 5.15 pm Battalion marched to VERMELLES where stores were taken up. At 11.00 pm Battalion arrived in trenches.
The War Diary records: 13 Oct-15 - At noon our artillery started to bombard. At 1.00pm our smoke and gas started. At 1.50pm smoke and gas stopped. At 2.00pm artillery lifted and Battalion assaulted the HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBT. Lieutenant Colonel R. E. MARTIN was wounded early but remained in the fire trench directing operations for nearly 24 hours and until -?- to the dressing station by Brigadier General KEMP. All officers of the Battalion either killed or wounded.
The War Diary records: 14 Oct-15 - In the evening the Battalion was relieved by part of the 139th Brigade and went back to the LANCASHIRE TRENCH. Roll call revealed that 188 NCO’s and men returned.
The Official History of the War – Military Operations (France and Belgium 1915 Volume II) provided the following statistics for the 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, officers killed 20, other ranks killed 453. Total losses for the day were 138th Brigade 64 officers and 1,476 other ranks. 137th Brigade 68 officers and 1,478 other ranks.
On Wednesday, October 20th, 1915 The Leicester Daily Post published the following article under the heading. “LEICESTERSHIRE AND THE WAR.” – 1st-4th LEICESTER’S IN ACTION. – HEAVY CASUALTIES. – Eight Officers Killed. – It is with profound regret that we have to confirm the rumours that have been so persistently in circulation the last few days, that the 1st/4th Leicester’s have suffered severe losses. The battalion was in action on October 13, and how they suffered may be judged from the list of officers whose deaths have been officially notified to their relatives. The receipt of the news yesterday caused a painful sensation in the town, and the sympathy of all will go out to the relatives of those who have fallen. It is impossible at present to obtain anything like a complete list of the casualties among non-commissioned officers and men. The following are the names and rank of the officers.
KILLED.
Captain PARR, son of Mr. J. G. Parr, veterinary surgeon, Humberstone-gate.
Captain FAIRE, son of Mr. Arthur W. Faire, J.P., county director of the V.A.D.
Lieutenant ROBERT CLIVE HARVEY, son of Col. R. Harvey.
Lieutenant T. WHITTINGHAM, son of the Rev. W. G. Whittingham, vicar of Knighton.
Lieutenant GREEN, son of Mr. Septimus J. Green, Fosse-road Central, of the firm G. Green and Son, shoe manufacturers, Ash-street.
Lieutenant FORSELL, son of Mr. John Thos. Forsell, of Barkby, and carrying on business as a spinner, in Frog Island.
Lieutenant GUY RUSSELL, son of Mr. Walter Russell, of B. Russell and Sons, hosiery manufacturers, Western Boulevard.
Lieutenant WALTERS, son of Mr. Wm. Walters, a director of Messrs. Stead and Simpson’s, boot and shoe manufacturers.
To this list should be added the name of Lieut. BLUNT, whose death in hospital from wounds received in the same action has already been reported.
And in the same edition, under the heading. THE FALLEN OFFICERS. – Lieut. GREEN, son of Mr. Septimus Green, of Fosse-road Central, and of Messrs. Geo. Green and Sons, was 21 years old, and was educated at the Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, entering his father’s business when he left. He joined the Territorial’s the Christmas before the war broke out, and trained with them at Luton. He was home on leave in July last for a few days.
On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour of former pupils, this records that Richard attended the school between the years 1904 and 1911.