Yvonne Green
Person Female Born 22/2/1911 Died 17/4/1941
Born in Canada and newly married to a Canadian army officer. Living at 34 Old Church Street. A part-time Auxiliary Fire Service driver. One of five fire-watchers killed on the night bombs fell on Chelsea Old Church and the surrounding area. She had swapped shifts on the night of her death.
Andrew Behan researched this woman:
Auxiliary Firewoman Yvonne Marie Dunbar Green was born on 22 February 1911 in Canada, the daughter of Forbes Sutherland and Jeanne Tachereau Sutherland of Montreal, Canada. In 1939 she married Lieutenant Leonard Gerhard Green of the Canadian Army, in Chelsea and the 1939 England and Wales Register shows them living at 34 Old Church Street, Chelsea.
He is recorded not only as an Assistant to a Public Relations Officer but also as an Air Raid Precautions Warden in the Borough of Chelsea and she is listed as a Driver in the Auxiliary Fire Service at No.6 Brompton Fire Station. She was killed, aged 30 years, in the early hours of 17 April 1941 by a German bomb that fell at Petyt Place / Chelsea Old Church and was buried in Plot 402 at St Margaret of Antioch Churchyard, North Lane, West Hoathly, East Grinstead, Sussex.
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