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Pte. Thomas Price
British Army 11th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.19th Aug 1917)
My grandfather is Thomas Price. I believe he was about 32 yrs old. We have no family photograph of him or information of his death of reported missing.
Pte. Tom A Price
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Rotherham
(d.1st July 1916)
Named on Thiepval Memorial
Pte. Trevor Price
British Army 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Aberdare
(d.3rd Apr 1918)
L/Cpl. W. Price
British Army 2nd Btn Welsh Regiment
(d.15th Feb 1915)
W. Price served with the Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion. He was executed for murder on 15th February 1915 and is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, Bethune, France.
Pte Walter John Price
British Amry 5th Reserves Durham Light Infantry
from:Kidderminster, Wocestershire
Private Walter John Price of Kidderminster, Worcestershire attested to the Durham Light Infantry on the 11/12/1915 and was discharged on the 20/02/1919. Walter was born on the 13th of March 1888 to John Price and Caroline Griffin. He was the brother to two sisters and one brother. Much about his early years is relatively unknown out of the realm of official records. Walter, before he attested, married one Florence Coates also of his hometown. They had 4 children together in all. He worked as a Ball Furnace-man in Kidderminster up until he headed for D.L.I.
Walter was in many battalions during WW1 all within the D.L.I and for the most part of his service he was fighting at the Salonica Front in Greece. It was there he contracted Maleria and was eventually hospitalized for a long time before being discharged. Much of what is known of Walter due to events after WW1 is down to some relatives and official records. It is not clear when or where Walter died and many of his relatives and descendants do not have any pictures of him.
Pte. Walter Charles Price
British Army 70th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Llynygog, Montgomeryshire, Wales
My story is very bitty as my great uncle, Walter Price was never discussed when I was younger and in my mid teens I discovered his campaign and war medals in a drawer under a load of rubbish. Along with the medals I discovered a photo of him before he went to the front line.
He came back from France in 1919 after being demobbed and spent the rest of his life in the mental health asylum in Talgarth, passing away in 1935 aged 39. My mother then handed what we had of him to my horrible Aunty and that was it. Both my mother and Aunty have passed on and I have no idea where the medals and photo are.
L/Cpl. William Price DCM
British Army 1/5th Btn. King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool
My grandfather, L/Cpl William Price of 1/5 Btn Kings received the DCM on 24th February 1920 for gallantry at "Ere, France" on 6th November, 1918. The oddest thing is, I don't think he was told about his medal. If he did, he never told his family. The problem is, I cannot find any history of the regiment being there. He was in Kings 1/6 Liverpool reg. I am obtaining a medal and making a display for my father. Any ideas?
A/Bmdr. William Price
British Army 63rd Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Belfast
(d.14th April 1917)
William Price was the son of Mrs.Elizabeth Price of 4 Brookfield Street, Belfast, Ireland. He served with B Battery, 63rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery . He was killed in action on 14th April 1917 age 22 years and is buried in Cagnicourt British Cemetery, France.
Pte. William Henry Price
British Army 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment
from:Poplar, East London
(d.1st October 1918)
William Price was born in 1899. He enlisted at Stratford East London. He was 19 years old when he was killed in action by machine gun fire. He is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium.
I have no knowledge of his life before or during the war, his younger brother, my grandfather who served with the Merchant Navy in WW1, had no photos or mementos of William.
Stkr. William Henry Price
Royal Navy
from:Cardiff
William Price served in the Royal Navy as a Stoker.
Able Sea. William Stephenson Price
Royal Navy HMS Daffodil
from:Whitburn, Sunderland
My grandad, William Price served on the sloop HMS Daffodil during WW1. I would love to find anyone whose grandparent served on her at the same time and if there's any pictures of the crew, as we don't have any.
Sjt. Edward Edwin Priddice
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Broomfield
(d.3rd May 1915 )
Edward Priddice was a game keeper in Broomfield, at the foot of the Quantock hills in Somerset. He was the son of Levi Elia Priddice of Rashill, Broomfield. He was killed by German fire and died on the 3rd of May 1915 at Ypres aged 22 and nine months.
Pte. William James Priddis
British Army 2nd Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Exmouth, Devon.
(d.14th Apr 1917)
Pte. Percy John Priddle
British Army 2nd Btn. C Coy. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
(d.14th March 1915)
Spr William Arthur Pride
British Army 268th Railway Coy Royal Engineers
from:The Common, Moreton, Dorset
William Pride's Service Number and Company are recorded in the 1918 Absent Voters' List for Moreton, Dorset. In 1914 he had been the winner of the Moreton Rifle Club's annual competition.
Before the War he had been a woodman, but in May 1916, when he married in Sway, Southampton, he was described as a Platelayer (which fits with him being in the 268th Railway Company, Royal Engineers in WW1). From 1924 he lived at 4 Station Cottages, Moreton.
William died in February 1936, age 44, at 4 Station Cottages, and was still working as a Railway Platelayer. William lies in a family grave at Moreton cemetery close to Lawrence of Arabia's grave - which is fitting as he and his parents lived at Clouds Hill (later T E Lawrence's home) from about 1907 to about 1913.
Capt. John Alexander Pridham MC.
62nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:'Hillfield,' Upwey, Weymouth
My Grandfather Capt John A Pridham served in WW1 at the Battle of Guillemont with 62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. On Sunday 3rd September 1916 he was wounded and lost his left eye. This is a transcription of entries that he made in his diary on that day and over the subsequent three days:-
“...Great rush of wounded began 10 am. 11am intense bombardment. Noon attack on Guillemont started. Tremendous rush of wounded 11 onwards all rest of day. Hardly able to cope with it. Attack successful. Many German prisoners. 2 M.O.s of the Connaughts & Munsters wounded. Hun started shelling neighbourhood about 5 pm. Got very close to dug out. Tried to get wounded about 6 .... of dug out. Whizzbang*. On doorstep** (wounded in left eye & forearm. Not seriously.) Dressed by Capt. Hickey. Rather painful. Osborne came in 9. Went away on stretcher 10.30 to .... ..... Montauban. ...... by S. Bs of Middlesex. Milne came with me. Then .... H. BMB, to other side of Montauban. Then ..... motor work. To Carnoy. AU 2 am.†[*Soldiers heard the typical "whizz" noise of a travelling shell before the "bang" issued by the gun itself. Whizz bangs were consequently much feared since the net result was that defending infantrymen were given virtually no warning of incoming high-velocity artillery fire as they were from enemy howitzers. The whizzbang presumably hit the doorstep** of the dugout which he was approaching to treat wounded men within. A dugout was a shelter dug into the side of a trench offering various degrees of protection, and were extremely vulnerable to shells fired directly into the trench.]
After he was wounded he was taken to Montaubon-de-Picardie, and thence to Carnoy. On Monday 4th September 1916 he left Carnoy for the main DR (Dressing Station) on the Bray-Corbie Rd. His left eye was excised at a hospital in Corbie:- “Saw Jepson at Carnoy. Left soon after by car for Main D.S. on Bray-Corbie road. AU 6 am. Wounds dressed. Learnt that left eye was gone. Went off almost at once to No 5C.C.S. Corbie . .... 8 am. Put to bed. Had a wash. Clothes removed. Taken to theatre 11. Under chloroform. Left eye excised ..........Woke up again about 3. A ..... ten 4.30 Taken out of bed & put on a stretcher 7.30 ..... stayed there ... 45 min(?)
On Tuesday 5th September 1916 he went by train to Amiens and thence to Abbeville (above and to the left of Amiens on the map), and continued westwards to Le Tréport on the coast. He was then taken by car to an hotel:- “Taken in ...... and 5 am Said good bye to Milne. Put in ..... train 6am. Had some broth in train. .... read paper & slept. Arrived Le Tréport about 1 pm. Vie Amiens to Abbeville. Taken by car to hotel. Dressed & washed at 5. Some dinner roast chicken etc. went to sleep at 9.â€
On Wednesday 6th September 1916 he had his wounds dressed – presumably at the local hospital in Le Tréport:- “Woke several times in night. Very hot. Breakfast, porridge & eggs 8.30 Washed in bed 10. wounds dressed 11. Lunch chicken etc. Wired Maggie & Mother. Tea 4. Washed again. Wounds dressed. Dinner. Soup, Fish, fruit pudding & fruit. Wrote Maggie and Mother. 7 in morning. Slept well most of night. 9.30 – 5.30.â€
Florence Pridie
Voluntary Aid Detachment
St. John Hospital, Southport, the Grange and the Woodlands, Presented to Florence Pridie for services during the Great War 1914-1919, Medal. This was bought from a carboot sale and I am in the process of tracking down family members to pass it back.
L/Cpl. Albert Ernest Priest
British Army 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Wigan
(d.26th Sep 1916)
Albert Priest was a plasterer by trade. He lost his life while serving with the 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.
Pte. Edwin Louis Priest
British Army 17th (1st Football) Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Southend on Sea
Edwin Priest attested on 12th of December 1915 as part of the Lord Derby scheme. He stated his willingness to serve for the duration of the war and was posted for duty on 11th of February 1916. After training, he joined the 17th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in France along with a draft of 69 other ranks. The Battalion was undergoing refit in a rest area of the Somme after having severe casualties at 2 actions on the Somme at Delville Wood and Guillemont.
After refit, the Battalion and Edwin carried out regular tours of duty in the Somme front line trenches throughout January, February, March and April 1917. This included forming regular working parties. During April 1917 they also practiced for their forthcoming part in the Arras offensive. On 28th of April they made their attack, the objective being the capture of Oppy Wood and village. All went well early on. However, the battalions attacking either side of them were unable to keep up due to uncut wire and very strong German defences. This enabled the Germans to make strong counter attacks on both flanks of the 17th Middlesex. Despite determined efforts to resist this, it effectively resulted in most of the attacking Middlesex troops being surrounded and killed, wounded or captured. The remnants of the Middlesex had to return to their original starting point. In this action the Middlesex suffered their highest single casualties of the war. The wounded who managed to get back were those injured early in the attack before the Germans had managed to surround them. Fortunately Edwin was wounded by shrapnel in the left arm early on. He helped assist another wounded man back.
Edwin was sent back to the Warrington Military Hospital in England and was eventually deemed fit on 23rd of June 1917. However, he was only fit for 2nd line duties, eg guarding lines of communication. He was posted to the 1st Garrison Battalion of the Essex Regiment and spent 18 months in Egypt and Palestine, catching measles there. January and February 1919 was spent in Salonika, where he caught malaria. This invalided him back to England to the Belmont Road Hospital in Liverpool. He was demobbed on 8th of April 1919.
Pte. Fred Priest
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.26th Oct 1917)
Fred Priest was killed in action on 26th of October 1917. Aged 29 years. At the time of his death he was attached to 7th Battalion, in B Company, 1st/7th Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers. He is remembered on the Tynecot Memorial, son of the late Jonah and Priscilla Priest.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
L/Cpl. George Priest
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Chesterfield, Derbyshire
(d.15th June 1918)
Pte J W Priest
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.15th Jul 1917)
Priest, J, W. Private, 19/1282, Died on 15th July 1917.
Buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, in grave I. B. 9.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. James Priest
British Army 7th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Pleasley, Mansfield, Notts
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
Pte. James Wilfred Priest
Royal Army Medical Corps 45th Field Ambulance
from:Cradley Heath, Stourbridge
(d.25th Aug 1917)
Wilfred Priest was my great uncle. We believe he was 17 when he died. He spoke some German and was the youngest of five children. He was the only son of Luke and Sarah Priest. We have no photos of him or know any details of his death. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
Pte. James Priest
British Army 10th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Blackheath
(d.22th Mar 1918)
Mjr. Priestley
British Army RAMC
Major Priestley was one of six doctors who were sent by the Germans to deal with the typhus outbreak at Wittenberg POW Camp between January and late July 1915.
Pte. Charles Priestley
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
(d.25th Feb 1915)
Charles Priestley, Private 8363, died of wounds aged 27. he is buried at Voormezeele in Belgium.
2/Lt. Dyker Stanton Priestley
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st July 1916)
Second Lieutenant Dyker Priestley served in D Company, 11th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was attached to the 108th MG Company when he was killed in action on 1st July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Lt Leonard Priestley CdeG, MID
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Passage West, Co. Cork, Ireland
Leonard Priestley was my grandfather, my mother's father. He joined the British Army in 1899 as a 15 year old. He went on to become a Lieutenant and fought in the Front Line in France in WW1. He won four medals, including the Croix de Guerre from the French Government for acts of bravery. He is mentioned on a Despatch from the King and signed by Winston S Churchill. He survived the war and came back to live in Cork in Ireland to his wife, Bridget, and brought his horse with him. He died aged 53 in 1938, allegedly of shaking disease, probably a brain tumour as he had many injuries during the war. I have his war foot locker, his medals, his despatch document, his field binoculars, two bayonets, one French and one German that he brought home as souvenirs and his pickle fork, cheese knife and nutcracker that he brought with him all through the war. I have copies of some of his war records
L/Cpl. Tom Priestley
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.21st Feb 1915)
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