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№ 1413

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20 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£460

Four: Commander T. L. Price, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Imperial Yeomanry - served in the Nelson Battalion R.N. Division in the Dardanelles and was wounded

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut., 15/Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr., R.N.V.R.) first with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £300-400

Tom Lewis Price served as Lieutenant in the 58th (Berkshire) Company, 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. He was severely injured, being kicked by a horse, at Springfontein, 14 May 1901.

During the Great War he was appointed a Temporary Sub Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. on 7 October 1914, being advanced to Temporary Lieutenant in February 1915 and Temporary Lieutenant Commander in March 1915. Served in the Nelson Battalion R.N. Division, being wounded in the Dardanelles (on the second occasion) on 13 July 1915. Later served in France but was invalided to England in October 1917, being treated at the Prince of Wales Hospital for epididymitis. Later employed by the Ministry of Labour.

With copied Boer War medal roll extracts confirming the above clasps, possibly plus those for ‘Transvaal’, ‘South Africa 1901’ and ‘South Africa 1902’. Also with copied R.N.V.R. service paper.