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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private Mark Thomas Green.    Born in 1887 in Islington, London, the son of Mark and Annie Ophelia Green. His father was a bricklayer. In April 1891 the family were living at 3 Church Grove, Islington, but by March 1901 they had moved to 7 Church Street, Islington. He enlisted with the 4^th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, service number 9315, on the 26^th June 1905 and was later that year posted to Malta, He was in Egypt for a month in 1906 before returning to Malta and in 1908 he served in India and was awarded the Coronation Durbar Medal in 1911. He left the army and was placed on the Reserve List on the 28^th December 1912. In January 1914 he was appointed as an Assistant Postman in the London Postal Service and was promoted to Postman in west London in August 1914. However as war was declared that month he was mobilized into the 2^nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on the 5^th August 1914. He entered France on the 30^th August 1914. On the 28^th December 1914 he received a gun shot wound to his left hand and was not fit to return to his battalion until the 17^th April 1915. On the 26^th September 1915 he was reported Missing, presumed Killed in Action at Vermelles, France, aged 28 years. He is commemorated on Panels 64 & 65 of the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star and Clasp, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.