William Wyndham Green

Lieutenant General Sir William Wyndham Green KBE CB DSO MC (1887–1979) was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command.

Military career
Green was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1907.

He served in World War I latterly as a Brigade Major in France. He was awarded the MC for extinguishing a burning gun-pit under heavy fire in 1917.

In 1926 he became an Instructor in Gunnery at the School of Artillery. In 1929 he went to India and served on the North West Frontier, before returning to the School of Artillery in 1937 as Chief Instructor for Equipment. In 1938 he was appointed Commandant at the Royal Military College of Science.

He served in World War II initially as Brigadier Royal Artillery at Northern Command and then, from 1941, as Second in Command in Gibraltar. In 1942 he became Commander of 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division and in 1943 he was made Commander of 5th and 6th Anti-Aircraft Groups.

After the War he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Anti-Aircraft Command; he retired in 1946.

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1947 to 1952.

The family home was at Little Gables in New Romney in Kent.

Family
In 1924 he married Aline Hope Primrose Cobbold and they went on to have two sons and a daughter.