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PRICE, Henry Edgar

Service Number:	4354
Enlisted:	11 August 1915, Enlisted at Zeehan on the West coast of Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tasmania, Australia , 1891
Home Town:	Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fettler
Died:	Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 22 August 1916
Cemetery:	Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Brunswick Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

11 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4354, Enlisted at Zeehan on the West coast of Tasmania
5 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
5 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Melbourne
29 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, Sailed on HMAT Transylvania from Alexandria to Marseilles
21 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , Price was one of 19 reinforcements who joined the 12th Battalion in the front lines on 21 July 1916.
19 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm, On the 19th August 1916 the 12th Battalion moved up to the line near Mouquet Farm and relieved the 4th Battalion. The next couple of days were spent improving and repairing trenches, and conducting night raids in No Man’s Land. During the morning of July 21st the Battalion repelled an attack by around 150 Germans. At 6.30 pm they successfully attacked the German line, and busily set about improving their new position. The Battalion commander Lt Col C.H. Elliot3 noted that the Battalion formed new entrenchments here by joining up shell holes into a trench line.
22 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4354, 12th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm, J. Anderson of the 12th Battalion witnessed Price’s death on this day. On 28th August 1919, whilst en route home to Australia aboard the transport HMAT Dunvegan Castle, he made the following report to the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry: “I knew the above soldier (Henry Edgar Price no. 4354) and was an eyewitness of his death being only a few yards away at the time. It occurred in front of Mouquet Farm at about 9 a.m. the morning after we had captured same. He was shot by a sniper: the bullet passed through the head. He was observing at the time. Death was instantaneous. I know nothing of his burial but what others have told me information will have been collected from those who took part in the burial. He was known to everyone as “Percy”. I think he came from Tasmania. Went to Egypt on the ‘Afric’ and from there to France on the ‘Transylvania. The officially recorded date of Price’s death is the vague and unexplained ‘19th to 22nd August 1916’, however it now seems likely that he was killed around 9 a.m. on Tuesday 22nd August 1916.

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