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- derbycsv
- People in story:听
- Florence Green (nee Meynell). Now Florence Trotman
- Location of story:听
- Derby.
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4351042
- Contributed on:听
- 04 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Louise Angell of the Derby CSV Action desk on behalf of Florence Trotman and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.
My son Robert Green was 17 and a half when he signed up as a soldier. At that age you didn't need your parents to sign and give permission for you to join up so he asked his headmaster instead. He was on his way home and was killed by snipers in Burma towards the end of the war, on April 12th. He was buried there. I eventually got to visit my sons grave and I took an engraved flagstone to put there.
I went on to work as a filing clerk at Royal Ordinance. I remember shrapnel falling on the roof when they tried to bomb Rolls Royce.
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