PRICE, Percy Hubert

Percy Price attended Oldswinford C of E school and by 1915 was married to Alice and living at 26 Belmont Road, Wollescote. He volunteered for the Worcesters and served in the 4th Battalion. He joined the battalion after it had arrived from India and was among the first contingent who landed on Gallipoli in the 28th April 1915. This landing, though successful, gained only a foothold in this difficult terrain. Three battles at the village of Krithia failed to drive the Turks back and the troops had to endure the difficulties of trench warfare in the ravines and gullies of the Gallipoli terrain. Private Percy Price was killed in action by a sniper during the sporadic fighting and is buried in Azmak Cemetery (II C 22) near Suvla Bay. He was 20 years of age and is commemorated on the Lye and Wollescote, Lye church and Oldswinford school memorials.