251040 2nd Lt Hugh Price British Army 3rd (Reserve) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment from:Whitley Bay (d.11th Oct 1918) My father's eldest brother, 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Price, died in the Battle of Cambrai on 11th October 1918, aged 27, the day before the German High Command requested an armistice. He was serving attached to the 7th Btn.
Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
His parents, Daniel and Kate Price lived at 2 Delaval Road, Whitley Bay, along with my father Cecil Price, who was too young to service in the Great War.
Daniel was born in Wales and Kate was from Sheffield.
Daniel's first language was Welsh.
I have never seen a photograph of Hugh or his fiancee and all I know is that he was engaged to be married and that his fiancee never married.
Kate Price never got over the loss of Hugh and she died in Whitley Bay in 1953, where she lived in Stanley Crescent with my mother and father.
Daniel Price was a draper by trade and I believe Hugh was as well.
I recall that Hugh had been working in London before he joined the Army.
All the male members of the Price family were in St. Paul's (CofE) choir in Whitley Bay, from about 1903, when they moved from Hartlepool to Whitley Bay.
My father Cecil died at the age of 97 in 1999.
My mother Vera died in 2018 at the age of 95.
I would greatly appreciate being able to see a photograph of 2nd Lieut
Hugh Price.
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