PRICE, Arthur
| Service Number: | F981/12 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 September 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Petty Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Newport, Wales, 24 July 1912 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Booragoon, Perth, Western Australia, 14 August 2001, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-380752-Y2R6S6 FC00036282 Cremation |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, F981/12 | |
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| 12 Feb 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, F981/12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Petty Officer Arthur Price (Service No:F981/12) served in the RAN from 8 September 1939 to 12 February 1946. PO Price served on HMAS Cerberus, Penguin, Platypus, Kuttabul, Leeuwin and was attached to HMAS Rushcutter at Discharge.
Born in 1912 in Monmouthshire Wales, Arthur was the eldest of two children of Giraldus Price (b1889 in Monmouthshire, Wales) and Gladys Mary Blake (b1891 in Glamorganshire, Wales). Giraldus (a Blacksmith) and Gladys married in 1911 in Monmouthshire, Wales where they settled and raised their two sons. Giraldus enlisted in the British Army in 1915 (Sapper; Regimental No:95961) and was KiA in 1916 in France. Gladys remarried in 1917 to Charles Jacobs (b1893 in Frome, Somerset) - Charles served in the British Army in WWI (Regimental No:9181). Charles and Gladys lived in Wales and Somerset, where Charles was a General Labourer before immigrating in 1923 as part of the Western Australian Group Settlement Scheme - they were offered free land and assisted passage to develop a farm in the South West of WA. Charles, Gladys and four children arrived in Albany WA on board the Euripides, and settled at Peel Estuary where Charles was a Settler/Farmer. Living conditions were harsh and the family faced significant financial and social hardships, and by 1925 had relocated to Fremantle, where Charles worked as a Miner, General Labourer and Carpenter.
Arthur (aka as Arthur Jacobs before officially changing his name back to Price in the 1930s) worked as a Labourer in Fremantle before enlisting in the RAN. In 1938 in Fremantle, Arthur married Margaret May Guidera (b1913 in Fremantle WA). They divorced during Arthur's service in WWII, and both remarried - Margaret to Arthur's younger brother Gerald in 1945, and Arthur in 1945 in Sydney, NSW to Ena Mildred Small (b1917 in Stroud, NSW) - Ena was working in Sydney as a Munitions Inspector. Arthur and Ena lived in Sydney, where Arthur was a Postal Worker, before moving to Perth in the mid 1950s. Arthur and Ena lived in Perth and Fremantle, where Arthur was a Civil Servant. Arthur died in 2001 and Ena in 2005.