Helen Marian Green was born around 1878 in Sarrat, Hertfordshire.  She appears on the 1881 census as a three year old living at Great Sarratt Hall, Hertfordshire with her family.  The head of the family was William Green, a 28 year old Australian landowner (born in Melbourne) who is noted on the census as  a farmer of about 300 acres and employing eight men and two boys.  His 27 year old wife Marian had been born in Rickmansworth and they had three children: Helen, Lilian Green (aged one, born in Rickmansworth) and Bernard Bachan Green (aged ten months, also born in Rickmansworth).  Later in 1881 another child - Edward Wilson Green - would be born and in due course Bernard and Edward would fight for their King and Country during the First World War.

 

During the war years, the family lived at The Red House, Chailey and on October 7th 1915, Helen's sister Lilian married Dr William Stewart Orton of Sussex 54 VAD.

 

Nothing is known of Helen's service with the Chailey VAD detachment other than that she worked as a nurse at there at some period during the First World War.