Five: Captain E. E. C. Price, Essex Regiment, late 1/16th London Regiment, latterly awarded a C.I.E.

1914 Star, with copy clasp (1902 Pte., 1/16 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted for display, generally very fine (5) £260-300

C.I.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942 ‘Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Financial Secretary to the Government of the North West Frontier Province.’

Eardley Edward Carnac Price was born in Vellore, S. India, 11 March 1892. Educated at Doughton College. As a Private in the 1/16th Battalion London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 November 1914. Suffering a shrapnel wound to the scalp, 26 June 1915, he was invalided to England, 14 July 1915. On 11 August 1915 he was commissioned into the 12th Battalion Essex Regiment and was transferred to the 9th Battalion in May 1918. Suffered a gunshot wound to the face on 19 August 1918. Ended the war as an Acting Captain. Address on his m.i.c., ‘Brooklyn’, Sidmouth Junction, Ottery-St. Mary, Devon. He later served in the Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Government of of the North West Province of India, with whom he was awarded the Jubilee and Coronation Medals and in 1942 was created a Companion of the Indian Empire. With copied m.i.c., roll extracts and notes; clasp to star and M.I.D. not confirmed.