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Andrew Robinson Price (1895-1918)


From Sunderland. Killed in action with 20 DLI eight days before the Armistice.


Andrew Price was born in Sunderland in 1895, the son of a dock labourer. In October 1915, aged 19, he enlisted in the 20th Battalion DLI and began his training with the battalion at Barnard Castle.

After training, 20/617 Private Price disembarked at Le Havre on 5 May 1916 with the rest of 20 DLI and served on the Western Front and, briefly, in Italy. In August 1918, he was appointed as an unpaid Lance Corporal.

At the beginning of November 1918, the 20th Battalion DLI was in Belgium in the front line near Elseghem on the River Scheldt. Though the German forces were in retreat, the Wearsiders still suffered from heavy shelling and on 3 November Andrew Price was killed in action – the last casualty from the men who had originally enlisted in 20 DLI in 1915.

The next day 20 DLI was withdrawn from the front. It had been the battalion’s last action of the Great War.

For further information:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2959614/price,-/

North East War Memorials Project: http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=11293#listlink

Civil Parish: Sunderland

Death date: 3-Nov-1918

Armed force/civilian: Army

Residence: 83 Victor Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland.

Religion: Church of England

Employment: 1911 Census: Iron foundry labourer (boy).
1915: Engine-man on enlistment.

Family: Parents: John William & Elizabeth Price.

Military service:

Enlisted 25 October 1915 as 20/617 Private Price, 20th Battalion DLI.
To France 5 May 1916. Served Western Front & Italy.
Appointed Lance Corporal (unpaid) 10 August 1918.

Medal(s): British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Memorial(s): Buried: Elsegem Churchyard, Belgium.
Book of Remembrance, Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland.

Gender: Male

Contributed by Durham County Record Office