W Pretsell . British Army Royal Armoured Corps W Pretsell served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Augustin Preucil. . Royal Air Force 55 OTU.
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A Price . British Army A Price served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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AC Price . British Army AC Price served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Albert Edwin "Ike" Price . British Army My late grandfather Ike Price was captured on an isle near Crete having been put ashore before the Germans overran the island. For several days he and two others hid in the hills until villagers gave them away (fearing reprisals) to the local police and they chose to surrender.
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P.O. Albert Ernest Price . Fleet Air Arm HMS Dorsetshire from Milford Haven (d.5th Apr 1942) Albert Price was my uncle, a petty officer in the fleet air arm he was the observer in the Farey Swordfish aircraft which used to fly off the deck of H.M.S Dorsetshire. Aged twenty-one and having been married to Daisy just three days before embarkation he was killed in action on Sunday the fifth of April 1942 when some eighty Japanese planes attacked and sank H.M.S
Dorsetshire and then H.M.S. Cornwall within fifteen minutes. He was sorely missed and will remain in our family's hearts forever.
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Sgt. Alexander Philip Price . Royal Air Force 83 Sqn from Hathern, Leics (d.6th July 1941) I am trying to research Alexander Price. I know he died in August 1941 over Holland & where his war grave is in Holland but he was awarded the DFM on 24-12-1940. It is recorded in the London Gazette but I don't know what for. Can anyone help?
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AT Price . British Army AT Price served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Betty "Tony" Price . Land Army Worked on the fields at Dunston, Spud picking
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F/L C. P.D. Price DFC.. 97 Squadron
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CB Price . British Army Royal Armoured Corps CB Price served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Able Sea. Clifford Price . Royal Navy HM MTB 697 (d.17th April 1945) Clifford Price served on MTB697, a Fairmile D class motor torpedo boat. This MTB took place in many a clandestine operation, taking SIS agents to and from their various landings in Brittany. The vessel was lost on the 17th of April 1945,
serving with 59th MTB Flotilla, sunk by mine off Krk Island, NE Adriatic Calculated as 0.1 miles N from Croatia, Glavotok Point. He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
All Other hands lost with Clifford defending the Islands around Croatia.
Their Graves are the seas around the Islands of Dalmatia
H.M.M.G.B.697
17th April 1945
- Able Seaman John Beddoes age 19
- Stoker Dennis Clarke age 20
- Stoker James Clarke age 20
- Leading M/M John Colthurst age 20
- Able Seaman Kenneth Constable age 20
- Leading Stoker Arthur Dickens age 24
- Able Seaman Frank Fennell age 23
- Stoker Leonard Peabody age 20
- Able Seaman Clifford Price age 20
- Chief M/M Brian Richardson DSM age 35
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Cpl. David Edmund Price . British Army No.3 Ambulance Car Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from Brize Norton (d.23rd April 1941)
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Tpr. Delwyn Price . British Army 1st Btn. A Sqn. Northamptonshire Yeomanry from Dowlais, Glamorgan. (d.30th October 1944) Delwyn Price was the son of David and Sarah S. Price of Dowlais, Glamorgan.
He was 21 when he died and is buried in the Loon-op-Zand (Loonschedijk) Pretestant Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
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Cpl. Edgar George Price . Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
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Cpl. Edgar George Price MID.. British Army 9th Battalion Cameronions from Park Farm, West Malvern, Worcestershire Cpl George Price was posted to the 9th Battalion 25 July 1941 and served active service in France landing in Arramanche (Mullberry Harbour)16th June 1944 then as a LCpl appointed Acting Cpl 13th July 1944. He was involved in close hand battles against the Germans until he was badly shot and wounded by shrapnel on or near the railway line in Best near Eindhoven, Holland. He was disharged because of injuries sustained 12th July 1945. Awarded the Oak Leaf on his medals (MID) and was proud to be a Cameronion. He never really talked about the war only on the odd occasion when triggered by events. He suffered paralysis down his right side through his injuries. He died in October 1992 leaving two sons and two daughters. Myself, being the oldest son, joined the REs and researched his wartime history from his service records and a day by day account of the 9th Cameronions in WW2 from a book on the History of the Cameronions after his death and also claiming his medals which he had left unclaimed. I am submitting this passage in respect of his memory and sacrifice.
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Cfn. Edward Roy Price . British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Birkenhead Edward Price served with the Royal Artillery and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
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Capt. Edwin Heman Price . Merchant Navy from Tywern Avenue, Cardiff (d.16th March 1939) My late Great Uncle, Edwin Heman Price, was born Feb 14th 1897 and died 16th March 1939. I have a copy of a newspaper clipping. This is what it said:
Defied Franco, Killed in Accident.
Captain EH Price, Master of the Alresford, who was killed through falling off the bridge of the vessel during a storm in the Mediterranean, was a native of Cardiff and lived at Tywern Avenue, Cardiff.
For nearly two years before his last voyage CaptainPrice was engaged on vessels carrying food to ports in Republicans Spain, and was master of the 10,000-ton British steamer African Mariner, which was bombed by German aeroplanes and sunk at Barcelona three days before Franco's troops entered the City.
Captain Price accepted the command of the Alresford, and on the day he left Cardiff to join the ship he told the Daily Herald that he was sailing under sealed orders.
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Sgt. Ernest H. Price . British Army 1st Btn. South Wales Borderers The 1st Battalion lost around 500 officers and men captured or killed near Tobruk, Libya when it found itself cut off by German forces during a general retreat. Sergeant Price was made a Prisoner of War in Tobruk and ended up in Italy bound for Germany on a POW train. It was on this journey that the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including Ernest Price, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men.
He survived the wreck with multiple slight wounds to his head and lower left leg. Upon recovery was sent to Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland.
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Eugene Price . British Army South Wales Borderers My grandad, Eugene Price, was a POW in Stalag XVIIIa, his POW number was 8003. He was in the South Wales Borderers. He spent nine years in India and was later a POW in a Japanese camp. I think he returned in 1948.
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F Price . British Army F Price served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Florence "Pat" Price . Land Army My mum Florence (but called Pat) Price was in the Land Army. She was at a Chivers Farm. Ely, Cambridgeshire.
She is now 82 and would love to make contact with friends Hilder Pybus (from Yorkshire). Also others she is unsure of their surnames Molly and Kattline. I realise this is a great long shot but l promised to do what I could.
Many thanks
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Cpl. Fred J. Price . British Army Royal Army Service Corps (d.26th October 1942) My grandfather died on 26th October 1942 at El Alamein. He and probably many others of his company were also at the evacuation at Dunkirk.
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Fred Price . Home Guard 23rd (Washington) Battalion Durham
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Cpl. Frederick James Price . British Army 82nd Anti Tank Regiment, 284 Baty. Royal Artillery from Buckley, Flintshire Fred Price had been in the Territorial Army for some time before the start of WW11. The Territorials met in The Drill Hall, Mill Lane, Buckley, Flintshire, North Wales. His Grandfather Charles Price and Uncle James Price had also been members of the TA in the late 19th Century.
On the first day after war was declared in early September 1939 Fred reported to the Holywell Drill Hall and joined up. He was in 284 Battery, 82nd Anti Tank Regiment, of The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Royal Artillery. Alongside him were many other ‘lads’ from Buckley – George Williams, Edward Roberts, Stan Parry, Donny Lyons, Oliver Lloyd and many others. They were part of the 14th Army – later known as The Forgotten Army’. Generals Slim and Orde Wingate were their commanders. Lord Louis Mountbatten was the Supreme Commander for S E Asia. He was a popular Commander. Major Gould was their Officer.
Fred trained and served at The Dale in Chester where he was trained as a cook and driver, and was also at Catterick and Bangor Northern Ireland.
He left for Burma in November 1941 having been stationed at Clacton – on – Sea for about a month previously. Vera had stayed nearby. He arrived in India in December 1941 and was initially based in Calcutta within sight of Everest.
He became an Antitank Corporal with the rank of Bombardier – in charge of the ‘Cookhouse’. They were fighting alongside the Chindits and the Ghurkas. Fred admired them all. During his time in camp he had a mule, a little dog and a mongoose of which he was very fond. He drove lorries too.
He was involved in the campaigns of Imphal, Kohima, Mandalay and Rangoon, and The Admin Box when the Allies were surrounded by the Japanese, but eventually fought their way out. Here Fred was wounded in the leg when he left the cookhouse and dived under an antitank box as they were being attacked. The wound was on the inside leg above the knee and he suffered reoccurring cramp for many years.
He recounted tales of peeling leeches from his legs and torso as they waded through jungle conditions, had boils beneath his feet and contracted Malaria which reoccurred for many years after the war ended, he would shiver violently and both he and the bed would shake. When he returned his once beautiful, perfect, white teeth were rotted with pyorrhea and had to be removed.
He was reluctant to tell many tales himself but his friend George Williams, with whom he remained friends until his death in 1982, was more forthcoming. He told how Fred once jumped into a lorry loaded with ammunition as it was slipping back without a driver into troops – and saved them.
Fred recalled how a fellow soldier put his head up out of a trench to take a look and his head rolled back in.
But the ‘Buckley lads’ all came back. They said that they must have had a star above their heads. The Burnma Star!
This story was complied from information Remembered by Julie, his daughter, or told by Vera, his wife in
about 2004.
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George Henry Price . British Indian Army 8th Army
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L/Sgt. George Edward Price . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. (d.11th July 1944)
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Sgt. George Price . British Army Grenadier Guards from Wolverhampton Grandad George Price was captured at Dunkirk and taken to Stalag XXA in Poland.
He was part of the great march westwards towards the British and American forces and was repatriated back to England in 1945
We, his grandchildren, don't really know much more as our Nan, his wife, didn't like to talk about the war.
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Able Sea. Godfrey William Price . Royal Navy SS Atako from Cricklade, Wilts. (d.1st June 1944) Able Seaman Price was the son of William John and Edith Jane Price of Cricklade, Wilts. He was 19 when he died and is buried in the San Jose Foreign Cemetery in Costa Rica.
His Headstone inscription reads: Dearly Loved and Sadly Missed by Dad and Mother, Peggy, John and Josie.
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