Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. J. Price, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), who died of wounds on the Western Front on 4 September 1915

1914-15 Star (2365. Pte. R. J. Price. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2365 Pte. R. J. Price. Midd’x R.); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Robert James Price, Middlesex Regiment’, the Scroll mounted alongside the Buckingham Palace enclosure in a glazed display frame, very fine and better (4) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Robert James Price was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, and attested there for the Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment on 6 August 1914. He served initially in Gibraltar guarding German prisoners of War, and whilst there was severely wounded by a bayonet in the side during rioting by the 8,000 German prisoners held there. Recovering, he served with the 1st/7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 March 1915, and was severely wounded in both legs whilst engaged on a night patrol operation on 25-26 August 1915, when his party was intercepted by the enemy. For his gallantry in bringing in the wounded under heavy enemy fire during this operation Private William Moutrie was awarded the D.C.M.

Price died of wounds at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, on 4 September 1915, and is buried in Abbeville Cemetery, France.

Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the British War and Victory Medals; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.