Offered is an original medal group to Private Green, who served with the 9th Light Horse and Australian Provost Corps during WW1.
1914/15 Star impressed named 1332 PTE C.A.GREEN. 9/L.H.RGT. A.I.F. Victory Medal impressed named 1332 PTE.C.A.GREEN. 9.L.H.R. AI.F. Missing War Medal.
Charles Augustus Green was born in 1886 at Glenmaggie Gippsland Victoria. He was married with 3 children when he enlisted in Melbourne Australia on the 19/8/1915. He sailed for Egypt on the “Hawkes Bay” on the 28/10/15 as part of the 11th re-enforcements for the 9th Light Horse. He landed on the 29/12/15 and was taken on strength of the 9th LH & 3rd Res Regiment. The 3rd Light Horse Brigade became part of the ANZAC Mounted Division and, in March 1916, joined the forces defending the Suez Canal from a Turkish drive across the Sinai Desert. The Turks were turned at Romani. Although it didn’t take part in the actual battle, the 9th Light Horse was involved in the advance that followed the Turks’ retreat back across the desert. By December 1916, this advance had reached the Palestine frontier and the 9th was involved in the fighting to secure the Turkish outposts of Maghdaba (23 December) and Rafa (9 January 1917), both of which were captured at bayonet point. On the 26/3/1917 he was transferred to the Anzac Provost Corps at Moascar, with whom he served until the 2/2/1918 when he returned to the 9th LH. The Anzac Provost Corps was formed on the 13/6/1916. The main body of the Corps, departed for service in England and France on 3/8/ 1916 leaving behind what was to be the Egyptian Section of the Corps. This consisted of a total of 7 Officers and 250 men. From inception it had been decided that only A class men would be accepted into the new Corps. Also to eliminate the perception amongst other units in the A.I.F., that men joining the new Corps were doing so to evade Active Service. Those men who had not seen service in the face of the enemy were transferred to the Desert Mounted Corps, on completion of their training. By June 1918 it had a strength of 7 and 506 men. After the initial intake, all new recruits must have seen service in the face of the enemy. By 1917, the requirements for entry into the APC were the strictest of any unit in the A.I.F. Service in the Corps was voluntary, subject to a probationary period and of limited tenure. The scope and nature of the duties included town patrols, VIP, hospital and POW escorts and detention barrack duties. Field duties included route reconnaissance, water discipline, field security (spies, saboteurs, guarding of stores etc), POW escorts and discipline. On returning to the 9th LH he served with them 18/7/18 and then various hospitals and rest camps. 15/4/19 Embarked HM Warwickshire at Port Said for Australia with Malaria.
