Price, Herbert William

Age: 23
Date of birth: 1891 (Q4)

Parents: James and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Price
Wife: Ada Painton
Address:

Occupation: Soldier

Herbert was baptised on 7th August 1892 at St Mark’s, New Milverton, Leamington Spa. His parents are recorded as James (labourer) and Lizzie Price

By the 1901 census, Elizabeth Price (without James, but recorded as married) was working as a laundress from home at Field Row in the Stoke St Michael parish of Coventry, next door to James’s parents. She had 3 of her sons living with her: Charles (15), Herbert W (9) and Frederick G (5).

In the 1911 census, Herbert is listed among the soldiers of the RWR at Whittington Barracks, just outside Lichfield. At that time he was single.

Herbert married Ada Painton in Q1 1914 at Warwick and they had a child, Marion Ada on 3rd October 1914.   Herbert’s pension records show that at some point the child, Marion, was  looked after by a Mrs Florence Gertrude Wallington of 34 Avon Street, Warwick.  Marion  died in 1973 aged 59.

Military Service

Rank & Number: Private, 1240
Regiment/Service: 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Brigade/Division: 10th Brigade, 4th Division
Date of death: Monday, April 26, 1915
Cause of death/Battle: Killed in Action - Battle of St Julien
Commemorated/Buried: Menin Gate
Awards: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Commemorated locally at: St Pauls Church

 

Herbert was one of four soldiers listed on the Warwick Memorial who died at the Battle of St Julien, which was the second phase of the 2nd Battle of Ypres and was the first occasion on which the Germans used chlorine gas against the Allies. The other three were Walter Newton, Frank Masters and Bert Mitchell.

Contributors

  • Unlocking Warwick Research Group
  • Warwick Advertiser excerpts courtesy of Warwickshire County Record Office
  • Photograph of Herbert courtesy of Belinda Lucas, Great Grand Daughter

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