Description
Queen’s South Africa, no bar, 1914-15 Star Trio, Arthur Price, Stoker, HMS Pelorus, a Welsh Sailor from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
QSA officially impressed: “A. Price. Sto., H.M.S. Pelorus”
Trio officially impressed: “280134, A. Price, Sto. 1. R.N.”
Arthur Price, was born on 20th June 1875 in Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Wales.
He first joined the Royal Navy on 27th August 1895, signing on for 12 years at HMS Vivid II as Stoker 2nd Class.
He reached Stoker not long afterwards on HMS Thunderer, 9th July 1896.
Leading up to the Boer War, he served on board HMS Pelorus, from 20th January 1898 until 31st August 1900.
Vivi, 1st Sept 1900 – 18th Oct 1901
HMS Indefatigable, 19th Oct 1902 – 13th May 1904.
After doing his 12 years he was discharged to shore on 31st AUgust 1907, to join the Royal Fleet Reserve.
He was among those RFR men who were eligible to be called back into service when World War 1 broke out.
He saw the following service:
HMS Amphitrite, 2nd August 1914 – 2nd March 1915.
HMS Vivid II, 3rd March 1915 – 25th June 1915.
Discharged due to his congenital cystic kidney invalided out of the navy on 25th June 1915.
A Welsh Orphan from Pembrokeshire.
Arthur did not have the greatest childhood having look into the records from Haverfordwest.
The only person born in the region with this name was an Arthur Price, born in the tail end of 1873 and baptised in Pembroke during 1874, was the son of Mary Price, but “Father’s Name” was left blank on the records.
It appears he became an Orphan as a child, as he is shown in Haverfordwest on the 1881 Census living in the Union Workhouse in the town, aged 7, his mother absent from the records.
Leading up to joining the Royal Navy, he was living at “The Grange, New Moat, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, Wales”, where he worked as a farmer servant for the Llewelyn’s who ran the farm, Arthur was 17 at the time.
