De Ruvigny Roll of Honour Vol 2 page 145
Menin Gate Memorial
Arnold John Green was born on the 27th June 1892 at Sunderland, the youngest son of John Green, of 41 Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Manager, and his wife Isabella Elliot, daughter of Robert Lowson of Sunderland.
Arnold was educated at the Ackworth Friends School near Pontefract. He joined the North Eastern Railway on the 8th October 1908 in the Chief Passengers Agent's Department, when his capacity for study made him exceptionally successful in the company's secondary examinations, and during 1914 he obtained a first-class pass in "Railway and Commercial Geography," and a second class pass in "Railway Operating."
On the 1st November 1912, he was transferred to the General Manager's Office at York, and while there took a prominent part in the affairs of the local branch of the Y.M.C.A.
He volunteered and joined the 1/7th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in September 1914. He was trained in Gateshead and then sent to France on the 19th April 1915. He was killed in action near Ypres on the 24th May 1915. While he was at York he frequently contributed articles in the North Eastern Railway Magazine, "Bonnie Blanchland" (Oct. 1913) and "A Peep at Durham" (May 1914) being among the number. He was unmarried.
De Ruvigny Roll of Honour
He is remembered in Sunderland in S140.048 Part 2, page 18, on S140.088 and in S140.096 page 2