Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Captain Rose Caradoc Percy Price, Royal Indian Marine

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (Sub-Lieut., R.I.M. H.M.S. Fox); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieutenant, R.I.M.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut., R.I.M.); 1939-45 Star; War and India Service Medals, these unnamed, very fine and better (8)
£550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw.

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Rose Caradoc Percy Price was born on 21 December 1883, a member of the ‘Baronet’ family of the Price’s of Trenwainton, Cornwall. He was educated at St. Paul’s, London and entered the Royal Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant in August 1902, transferring the Royal Indian Marine in 1906. As such he served off the Somali coast, 1908-09 and in the Persian Gulf, 1911. Price was promoted to Lieutenant in 1909; Lieutenant-Commander in 1917 and Commander in 1921. During the Great War he served as Marine Transport Officer, based initially at Amara, Mesopotamia and later at Bombay where he was ranked as Divisional Naval Transport Officer. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. Price retired as a Captain in 1925. During 1929-38 he was Nautical Advisor and Principal Port Officer at Rangoon. Appointed Naval Control Service Officer, Calcutta in 1940; he served as Official Guardian and Naval Trainer to the Indian and Pakistan Governments, 1941-50. Captain Price died on 28 December 1959. With copied research including photocopied photograph.