Private Henry Martin Johnston Price
Number: 9586
Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: 15 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 23 years
Trade of calling: Butcher
Place of birth: In the Parish of Shankill, near the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim
Family: Wife Edith Elizabeth Price (nee Murphy), 163 Sandy Row, Belfast.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 8". Complexion fresh, eyes brown, hair brown. Mole on chin.
Religion: Presbyterian
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1902
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 11 November 1900 (stated on the death certificate, but 3 November on official reports the the UK).
Place: No.15 General (Military) Hospital, Howick, South Africa
Cause: Enteric fever
Buried/ commemorated: Howick British Military Cemetery/ Howick British Military Memorial
Price was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. On 23 June the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph reported that he was at Reitz Hospital under treatment for rheumatism. He was released from captivity on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British took Nooitgedacht.
Image sourced from the Find a Grave site
This page last updated 23 July 2024.