William Wyndham Green

Lieutenant-General Sir William Wyndham Green, (15 May 1887 – 12 November 1979) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command from 1945 to 1946.

Military career Educated at Malvern College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Green was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1907. He served in the First World War latterly as a brigade major in France. and a bar to the award, the citation for which reads:

Green also received the Distinguished Service Order at Ploegsteert in April the following year. The citation reads:

After attending the Staff College, Camberley, from 1919 to 1920, in 1926 Green became an instructor in Gunnery at the School of Artillery.

After the war Green was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Anti-Aircraft Command; he retired in 1946. The family home was at Little Gables in New Romney in Kent. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the county in 1949.