Description

Offered is a 1914 ? 15 Star, impressed named 221698. T.P. PRICE. L.S., R.N., British War and Victory Medals (1914 ? 18), impressed named 221698 T.P. PRICE. P.O. R.N. Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (G.V.) impressed named 221698 T.P. PRICE. P.O. H.M.S. ITHURIEL. Court mounted for display. Comes with copies of service papers, medal roll, newspaper article and 1939 census.

Petty Officer Thomas Percy Price was born on the 14/3/1886 in Birmingham. He enlisted into the Royal Navy on the 22/7/1902 as a Boy 2^nd?Class, his civilian occupation being ?Shaper?.? He served on a variety of H.M. ship and shore bases including: Impregnable, Agincourt, Boscawen,?H.M.S. Mars (pre-dreadnought battleship) 30/4/1899 ? 16/8/1905. 1902 an accident with her forward main battery killed eleven men and badly damaged the turret.?Victory I (accounts base), Jupiter, Vernon (Torpedo school),?H.M.S Mercury?(the 1878 Iris Class Cruiser was a Portsmouth Submarine Depot Ship in 1908. The hulk HMS Dolphin along with the hulk HMS Mercury were berthed in Haslar Creek acting, with the shore accommodation of Fort Blockhouse, as the ports submarine base. Mercury was withdrawn in 1908) 15/9/1908 ? 28/10/1909, H.M.S?Bonaventure?(Astraea-class second-class cruiser used as a submarine depot ship) 29/10/1909 ? 5/4/1910,?H.M.S. Vulcan?(a second-class torpedo boat carrier, but converted to a submarine depot ship) 6/4/1910 ? 16/1/1912, Hebe,?H.M.S. Vulcan?22/3/1912 ? 31/31/12/12,?H.M.S Alecto?(commissioned at Sheerness on 20/6/1912 and served with submarines at Yarmouth throughout the war) 1/1/1913 ? 13/2/1913,?H.M.S. Vulcan?14/2/1913 ? 10/12/1913, Victory.

WW1: Irresistible (Formidable class pre dreadnought) 30/7/1914 – 8/10/1914, Vernon 9/10/1914 ? 5/11/1914,?H.M.S. Dolphine?(submarine depot ship) 6/11/1914 ? 13/5/1915, H.M.S F???th 14/5/15 ? 7/9/16,?H.M.S. Dolphine?8/9/16 ? 30/7/16, H.M.S. Maidstone?(submarine depot ship) 31/7/1916 ? 23/12/1916, ???? 24/12/16 ? 15/10/1917,?H.M.S. Platypus?(submarine depot ship, served with British submarines at Harwich throughout the war) on the?submarine E38?16/10/1917 ? 28/7/1918, H.M.S. Dolphine 29/7/1918 ? 7/2/1919.

Post War he served aboard H.M.S Crescent (depot ship for)?submarine K16?8/2/1919 ? 27/6/1919,?submarine L6?28/6/1919 ? 2/2/1920, Dolphine, Victory I, Vernon, Fisgard

Discharged/invalided out 14/7/1923, the 1939 census records him as working as an electrician at a power station in Tidbury Green with notes retired PO RN. He died January 1975.