Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private T. Price, 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who contracted chronic malaria and was wounded in the Balkans on 27 May 1918

1914-15 Star (16313 Pte. T. Price. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (16313 Pte. T. Price. S. Wales Bord.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (3952550 Pte. T. Price. 5-Welch R.) nearly very fine (4) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Thomas Price was born in Merthyr, Glamorgan in 1895 and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 4 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 September 1915, before embarking from Marseille on 30 October 1915 to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Salonika. On 10 July 1916 he was first diagnosed with malaria and admitted to the 26th General Hospital in Salonika. He was later transferred to St. David’s Hospital on Malta, then on to a convalescent camp and then finally to the divisional base in Alexandria. He rejoined his battalion in the field on 8 September 1916, but still suffering from recurrent bouts of malaria he spent the remainder of 1916 and 1917 in Salonika either in the field with his battalion or convalescing. On 27 May 1918 he was injured by a gun shot wound to the left leg, returning to his battalion in the field on 18 July 1918.

He was transferred to the ‘Class Z’ Army Reserve upon his demobilisation on 8 January 1919 and was later awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal while serving with the 5th Battalion, Welch Regiment.