LIEUT. HERBERT ALLEN PRICE, M.C., 3RD BATTN. SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY (S.R.), ATTD. 20TH SQDN. M.G.C. (CAVALRY). DIED AT RAMLEH, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1917, OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION NEAR JERUSALEM THE PREVIOUS DAY. AGED 20. At the School 1912—14 (Park House). Lieut. H. A. Price, M.C., was the second son of the late Herbert Growland Price, and of Mrs. Price, of 18, The Avenue, Branksome Park, Bournemouth. He entered the School in January, 1912, from The Grange, Folkestone, and the Head Master of the Grange wrote :— " Bertie as I knew him had the making of a splendid man in him. He was so solid and sensible, so conscientious and straightforward, and even as a young boy was able to do great good. " I always look back to him as the best Prefect and Captain of Games we have ever had: he showed his powers of leadership and sportsmanship at the age of 14." In the summer of 1914 he was in the Modem Fifth and had earned his promotion to Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C., but his School career came to a premature end, for, though not yet seventeen, instead of returning in September, he enlisted in the 19th, or 2nd Public Schools, Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers, the City of London Regiment, and joined up at Epsom on October 5th, 1914. After training with them for a few months he obtained a commission, dated February 20th, 1915, in the Special Reserve Battn. of Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry. For some time he was at Crown Hill, Plymouth, Lydford and Haylng Island, going through special instruction courses, including a machine-gun course, and being specially recommended was seconded to the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, December 14th, 1915. He joined the Corps at Grantham and did so well that he was recommended for service with the first twelve Companies sent out to the Front, and crossing to France on February 9th, 1916, took part in much of the fierce fighting of that year at Neuve Chapelle, High Wood and elsewhere, and in the Battle of the Somme, till on November 2nd, 1916, he was severely wounded in the right foot at Stuff Trench, Thiepval, whilst endeavouring to rescue his Corporal, who was knee-deep in mud and unable to move. On one occasion he is known to have rendered valuable service after a repulsed attack by collecting scattered units, rigging up an emplacement and holding the position for some hours with his gun. On another, he volunteered to go with his Captain and a scouting party in search of wounded, and finding an officer severely wounded in the thigh and unable to move succeeded in bringing him in on his back under shell fire ; whilst on a third occasion, finding a wounded man in a shell hole unable to be moved without a stretcher, he returned, and obtaining assistance and a stretcher, brought him in successfully across dangerous ground devoid of cover. He had been promoted to Temporary Lieutenant in the M.G.C., July 6th, 1916, and in the New Year's Honours List of January 1st, 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross, being decorated by His Majesty at the Investiture at Buckingham Palace on February 10th. After spending some months in Hospital in London he recovered from his wound and was transferred to the M.G.C. Cavalry, April 27th, 1917, and stationed at Maresfield Park, Uckfield. He was promoted full Lieutenant in his Regiment but to remain seconded, July let, 1917. On September 13th he sailed for the East and on joining his Squadron was given command of a newly-formed section. In the early morning of November 29th, he was wounded after his Section had repulsed an attack. At the time his wound was not thought to be very serious, but he was carried at once to the Dressing Station and shortly afterwards sent down on a camel to the Beceiving Station at Ramleh, where he died on the following day, November 30th, 1917, and was buried in the Convent Garden Cemetery of the Church of Arimathea, Ramleh, but was subsequently re-interred in Ramleh Military Cemetery. His Captain's letter to Mr. Price contained the following:— " Your son joined us on the 20th of October and took command of a newly-formed Section, which did very good work throughout the recent operations. Only one of his energy and keenness could have succeeded in getting such work from men new to each other, to their horses, and to the country in which we were fighting, and I know how much confidence it gave me personally to have him in command. I could rely implicitly on his judgment and courage. " Your son met his death when with his Section in action in a very hot comer, and indeed his K.C.O.'s have since been awarded three decorations for the work the Section did on that occasion. I saw him on the evening of November 28th and he was in excellent form, very cheery over the good work his Section were doing and, as usual, with no thought for his own safety or comfort."