Background
Florence Green was born at Edmonton, London.
Florence Green was born at Edmonton, London.
To Frederick and Sarah (nėe Neal) Patterson. She joined the Women"s Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17, where she served as an officers" mess steward. She worked in the officers" mess at Royal Air Force Marham and was also based at Narborough airfield.
Her husband, a railway worker, died in 1975, aged 82, after 55 years of marriage.
She lived in King"s Lynn with her 90-year-old daughter, May (born 1921), until November 2011 when she moved into a care home. In January 2010, she was publicly identified as, at that time, the oldest living female veteran of the First World War.
On 19 February 2011 she celebrated her 110th birthday, becoming a supercentenarian—one of just 10 living in the United Kingdom, all women. With the death of Claude Choules on 5 May 2011, Green became the last known living veteran of the First World War.
On 20 July 2011, the Gerontology Research Group verified her age, and listed her as an official supercentenarian.
Before her death on 4 February 2012, aged 7009350153280000000♠110 years and 351 days, she was West Norfolk"s oldest resident, the second-oldest person in Norfolk, and the sixth-oldest in the United Kingdom.
She was a member of the Women"s Royal Air Force.