A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War Passchendaele M.M. group of three awarded to Driver E. T. Price, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (339123 Dvr. E. T. Price, 3/D.A.C. Can. F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (339123 Dvr. E. T. Price, C.F.A.), nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1919. The original recommendation states:

‘For gallantry and devotion to duty on 9 November, about 10.30 a.m., on the Ypres-Passchendaele Road, about one mile west of Passchendaele. Driver Price was one of the advance party of a large mule train packing ammunition to the Battery Position of the 9th Brigade, C.F.A. When just east of Spree Farm the Germans shelled the road very heavily, killing and wounding about twenty men and a number of animals of a pack train ahead, which entirely blocked the road. Driver Price the Corporal Edgelland, Drivers Dean and Church, acted with great coolness and bravery, securing stretchers and carrying the wounded to the dressing station under heavy shell fire. They then cleared the road and proceeded with the ammunition to the guns. By their courageous action they set a fine example.’

Franklin Tisdale Price was born in Sincoe, Ontario, on 13 February 1881. A Bank Clerk by occupation, he enlisted into the 68th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, at Vancouver in July 1916, but transferred to the 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, C.F.A., before going out to France that December. Awarded the M.M., he was discharged at Hamilton, Ontario, in March 1919; sold with copied service papers.