BORN HULL 1881. SON OF ALFRED EDWIN PRICE & HARRIET PRICE, OF 11 TALBOT STREET, HULL . HUSBAND OF MAY PRICE, OF 22 COLERIDGE STREET, WESTCOTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE WAS A HULL POST OFFICE WORKER, JOINING AS A TELEGRAM LAD AT THE AGE OF 13 AND WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM. HE WAS ALSO WELL KNOWN IN SWIMMING CIRCLES BEING AN INSTRUCTOR AT ST JAMES SWIMMING CLUB. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY AND DIED OF WOUNDS AT ROUEN HOSPITAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MAY.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 17/10/1916. IT INCLUDES A PHOTOGRAPH OF THOMAS AND HIS BROTHER GEORGE PRICE, A PAINTER, WHO HAD ALREADY BEEN WOUNDED TWICE, WITH THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, AND LIVED AT 2 BOTANIC AVENUE, CONVENT LANE, HULL.
THOMAS PRICE IS BURIED AT ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, “IN EVER LOVING MEMORY FROM HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN”
