Family group:

British War Medal 1914-20 (5650 J. M. Price, 13-Lond. R.)

Three: Private G. H. Price, Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (M2-050400 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-050400 Pte., A.S.C.) generally nearly extremely fine (lot)
£150-200

John Maitland Price attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 14 April 1915 but transferred to the 13th London Regiment in March 1916 in order to serve overseas. Entering France on 22 June 1916 he saw his first action at Neuville, June / July 1916 and reported that he made his first bombing raid on 12 August 1916 at Bois de Bray. In November 1916 he sailed with his unit via Malta to Salonika and was based there until July 1917 when he was transferred to Egypt. He took part in the battle for Beersheba and Jerusalem during late 1917 and in early 1918 was in hospital being treated for a gun-shot wound to the left hand. At the war’s end was based near Jaffa. Price was demobilised in London on 4 April 1919. He died in Falmouth, Cornwall on 8 June 1984, aged 89 years.

The medal to J. M. Price sold with an extensive archive, including: recipient’s Certificate of Disembodiment; type written pages of his war diary, 1915-19; letter of notification dated 15 January 1918 to Mrs G. A. Price that he was in 44 Stationary Hospital Kantara suffering from a gun-shot wound; photographs of the recipient; portrait photographs of several army colleagues; a photograph album with many photographs relating to his service in Egypt in early 1919; H.A.C. 13th London Detachment Re-union Dinner Menu 1920 with signatures; 2 /13th London Regiment (Kensingtons) No.8 Platoon Re-union Dinner Menus ( 27), spanning 1923 - 1970, all bearing signatures; ‘The Kensington’, journal of the Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment (26), spanning 1918 - 1979; “The Kensingtons” 13th London Regiment, a book by Bailey and Hollier; A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, July 1917 to October 1918, published by the Palestine News 1919, with coloured maps; Daily Mail Golden Peace Number, 30 June 1919, these last three publications a little damaged and worn; together with a H.A.C. cap badge; silver match container, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919; hallmarked silver pencil holder, inscribed, ‘J.M.P. from No.8 Platoon.