William Greene

William Oliver Greene ( – 28 September 1979) was a British field hockey player who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Biography In 1943, Greene joined the Royal Engineers. He was a warrant officer at the School of Military Engineering in Ripon. making his debut in 1946 and would later represent the North, the Army and Combined Services. and subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, winning a silver medal, although he had to settle for being an unused substitute. he would play club hockey for Gravesend. Another transfer resulted in progress to becoming regimental sergeant major and playing for Brighton, then Chichester and Sussex until 1957.