Stewart Price

First Name: 
Stewart
Last Name: 
Price
Date Enlisted: 
Saturday, August 29, 1914
Rank at Enlistment: 
Private
Rank at Discharge: 
Private
Unit: 
3rd Battalion
Company: 
G
Service: 
Infantry
Awards: 
1914/1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Date of Death: 
Sunday, July 23, 1916
Place of Death: 
Pozieres, France
Cause of Death: 
Killed in action
Details: 

Stewart Price (Service No 1368), according to his enlistment documents, was born in Maitson, Kent, England around 1880.  He appears to have come to Australia in 1912

When Stewart enlisted he was living at Helensburgh, N.S.W.   On his enlistment papers, Stewart stated he was single, 34 years of age, and worked as a labourer.

Stewart embarked from Sydney with the first contingent, on board HMAT A14 Euripides with G Company, 3rd Battalion, on 20th October 1914.  After training in Egypt he was involved in the landing at Gallipoli on 25th April.  Stewart survived the early fighting, but was wounded on 19th May 1915 and evacuated to Egypt for treatment of his wounds.  He returned to Gallipoli on 17th September 1915 and remained there till the evacuation. 

Stewart arrived in France with 3rd Battalion on 28th March 1916, and was in the fighting on the Somme at Pozieres.  During the battle Stewart was killed on 23rd July 1916.

There is no known grave for him.  He is commenorated on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneaux, France.

A number of letters on Stewart's National Archives of Australia (NAA) file indicate that he was a married man with 5 children and had served in the British Marines,and was most likely 40 yeears of age.  Stewart had married Annie Reynolds in March 1906.  He appears to have left the Marines and deserted his family in 1912.  

Stewart's former wife, Annie, who had remarried, and was now Annie Ellis, applied for a war pension for Stuart's children, Nellie Grace Price, Alice E Price, William Herbert Price, Kathleen Price in May 1917.  In August 1918 a claim for a war pension was made by Elizabeth Stride, on behalf of another of Stewart's daughters, Lily Mary Reynolds.

Sources: 
NAA: B2455, PRICE STEWART