Lieutenant Henry Isaac ’Harry’ Price
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Price,
Henry Isaac ’Harry’
Date of birth: 1896-04-06
Place of birth: Toronto Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Margaret Ann Price, mother. 216 Greenwood Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Brick Maker
Address:
216 Greenwood Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Religion: Methodist
Date of death:
1985-02-19
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 304394
Highest Rank:
Lieutenant
Rank detail
- Lieutenant (Army). 1917-06-14 to 1917-12-18
- Lieutenant, 75th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1917-04-25 to 1917-06-14
- Lieutenant (Army). 1917-02-21 to 1917-04-25
- Lieutenant, 123rd Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1917-02-05 to 1917-02-21
- Lieutenant (Army). 1917-01-06 to 1917-02-04
- Lieutenant (Army). 1916-04-29 to 1917-01-06
- Private (Army). 1915-10-04 to 1916-01-17
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes
Battle wounded/killed: Wounded June 8, 1917
RESEARCH INFORMATION
LAC ID:
285883
Service file: B7975-S049
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Henry Isaac Price and Margaret Ann 'Annie' Price (nee Simpson); husband of Ethel Maude Margarette Price (nee Hilker) married April 20, 1918
Date of Birth declared on Attestation papers was April 6, 1894, but birth record confirms that the correct Date of Birth was April 6, 1896
Discharged December 18, 1917 Medically Unfit
Uploader's Research notes: [Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 3rd Reserve Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 75th Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 180th Battalion Private Army Canadian Field Artillery 34th Battery Commissioned in the 180th Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 3rd Reserve Battalion Transfer initiated February 4, 1917, but this officer not required on strength of 123rd Battalion, so he reverted to 3rd Reserve Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 123rd Battalion Transfer initiated February 5, 1917, but this officer not required on strength of 123rd Battalion, so he reverted to 3rd Reserve Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 1st Depot Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment Military Cross For conspicuous gallantry during operations. When his senior officer was wounded he took command of his company, and behaved with the greatest coolness under very heavy fire. Later, though severely wounded in the neck, he walked to Battn. Headquarters and rendered a useful report. ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2012-11-18
Last modified: 2017-08-06