Name
Frederick Price
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Coldstream Guards
1st.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Apsley memorials, Not on the Sarratt memorials
Pre War
Frederick Price was born in 1889 in Belsize, Sarratt, Herts. the son of Henry and Rebecca Price and one of six children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 9 Hollybush Terrace, Sarratt, Herts, where his father was working as an Agricultural Labourer. They had moved to Weymouth Street, Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead by 1901 and his father was working as a Painter. They remained in Weymouth Street, Apsley End, in 1911, then living at No. 23, and Frederick was working as a General Labourer.
On pension records, Emily Dyer was listed as his Dependant and said to be his mother, however she was his widowed sister, living with the family on the 1911 Census, and working as a Cook Domestic. His father died in late 1920 and his mother in early 1923 so it is likely that Emily helped care for Frederick until he died in 1928 in Hemel Hempstead, aged 39.
Wartime Service
Frederick was a serving soldier with the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards (Reg. No. 7593) at the outbreak of war, and arrived in France on 13 August 1914.
He was wounded in the retirement from Mons. As a result of those wounds he was discharged from service on 26 June 1915 and it was reported that he would be an invalid for life.
He received Silver War Badge, No. 17047 when he was discharged and the reason given was "Lesion of Spinal Cord affecting also nerve roots".
Additional Information
Some pension records exist but give no indication of amount of payments received. Not listed in CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
Not on CWGC website. Died in 1928.
