Army Number : n/a (formerly Private, 2965, King’s Royal Rifle Corps)

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards : Military Cross

Born and lived at West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hastings Price, of 31, Musters Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. He was a Lace Warehouseman prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 21st May 1915 with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and gained at commission as Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment December 1916.

He was awarded the Military Cross, London Gazette, 17th December 1917. “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when on the 22nd October 1917, at Houthulst Forest, Belgium, the battalion on his right had to withdraw their line, he crossed the open under heavy fire and rallied a body of men, placed them in a good position, and thus secured the right flank of the left battalion. That night he was entrusted with the relief of a company which was mixed up with another battalion, and this he carried out most successfully under very difficult circumstances. Throughout the operations he displayed great capabilities and power of leadership.”

He was killed in action 24th January 1918, aged 23, at Ferdan House, near Houthulst Forest, Belgium, by an incendiary shell which entered the pill-box he was occupying.

Buried/Commemorated : Cement House Cemetery, Belgium. Pheasant Trench Memorial I

Second Lieutenant Stanley Hastings Price is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Giles Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
West Bridgford War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
Mundella Church War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church. Nottinghamshire.