Name
Percy Victor Price
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17555
Essex Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 85 to 87.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Boxmoor memorials
Pre War
Percy Victor Price was born in 1888 in Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the son of Frederick and Georgina Price and one of three children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 8 Burman Road, Southwark, London, where his father was working as a Platen Machine Hand. His mother died in 1902 and on the 1911 Census Percy was living with his widowed father, brother Frederick and three visitors at 65 St Paul's Road, Barking, Essex. His father was then working as a Printer and Percy was a 12 year old schoolboy.
His father later lived at 16 Upton Avenue, Upton Lane, Forest Gate, E 7.
Wartime Service
Percy enlisted in East Ham, Essex and served with the 13th Battalion, Essex Regiment. He went to France on 17 November 1915 but was killed in action less than a month later, on 11 December 1915.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 1s 11d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
