PRICE, Gerald
| Service Number: | WX19075 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Small Ships Company |
| Born: | Abertillery, Wales, 9 January 1915 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Truck Driver |
| Died: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 20 February 1994, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
The Western Australian Garden of Remembrance, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX19075 | |
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| 21 Mar 1942: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 25th Machine Gun Company | |
| 26 Feb 1945: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 11th Small Ships Company | |
| 19 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX19075 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Gerald Price (Service No:WX19075) served with the Militia as a Private (44th Battalion) from 10 September 1930 to 1 July 1933. On 15 January 1942 he enlisted in the AIF and was attached to 2/28th Battalion before being transferred to 25 Machine Gun Regiment. Private Price served on Thursday Island (5 March to 30 October 1944) and in New Guinea (Morotai - 12 August to 21 November 1945). Private Price was attached to 11th Small Ships Coy at Discharge on 19 December 1945.
Gerald, born in 1915 in Monmouthshire, Wales was the youngest 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 until 1915, when Giraldus enlisted in the British Army (Sapper; Regimental No:95961). Giraldus was KiA in France in 1916, and in 1917 Gladys remarried to Charles Jacobs (b1893 in Frome, Somerset) - Charles served in WWI (Private; Regimental No:9181). Gladys and Charles lived in Wales and Somerset where Charles was a General Labourer. In 1923 they immigrated to Western Australia with four children as part of the Group Settlement Scheme - they were offiered assisted passage and farm land in the south west of WA. The family arrived in Albany WA in 1923 and settled at the Peel Estuary Estate, where conditions were harsh and the family suffered financial and social hardships. In 1925 Charles and Gladys moved their family to Fremantle where Charles worked as a Miner, General Labourer and Carpenter.
Gerald started work in Fremantle as a Biscuit Factory Worker, and was a Truck Driver when he enlsied in the Army. In 1945 in Fremantle WA he married Margaret May Price (nee Guidera; b1913 in Fremantle, WA) - Margaret was his sister-in-law. Gerald and Margaret lived at Latham nr Perenjori, WA where Gerald was a Farm Hand and then Farmer. In the late 1960s Gerald and Margaret moved to Monyoonooka via Geraldton where Gerald was a Farmer before settling in Geraldton in 1980 - Gerald worked as a Porter in Geraldton. Margaret died in 1990 and Gerald in 1994.