GROUP OF SOLDIERS WW1
B/W Postcard. A group of 12 soldiers arranged in three rows next to wearherboard buildings. They are dressed in full uniform, with puttees, three in caps, the rest in slouch hats. Two have scarves and one a great coat. One sitting cross legged has crossed signal flags on his sleeve. Several are smoking cigarettes and the one on the left of the middle row, smoking a pipe, is probably Jack Price. On the back is a rubber stamp [ Copies & Enlargements can be had from E. E. Mills & Co.Slades Green Station, Erith]
John Lloyd Price was born in 1889 near Oswestry, North Wales. A small man, being 5 feet 4 inches tall, he was known in Claremont as 'Little Jack' distinguishing him from his Welsh friend, Jack Griffiths. He worked at Rome's Dairy and was friendly with the Carter family who lived in Hay St (now Lakeway) and later Second Avenue, Claremont. When WWI broke out he enlisted in Perth in March 1915 (Service No. 364) trained at Blackboy Hill and embarked from Australia on 9 June 1915 as a private in the 28th Battalion. He left Alexandria on 4 September for Gallipoli where he was wounded on 26 October. He was admitted to 7 Field Ambulance Hospital suffering a mouth injury, broken ribs and a chest wound, transferred to the General Hospital in Gibraltar in December for some 30 days, and then to a London Hospital before rejoining his unit in March 1916. He was briefly hopitalised on a number of occasions suffering from impetigo. On 10 August 1917 he was transferred to the Australian Veterinary Corps and served at the Australian Veterinary Hospital in Calais. From May to August 1919 he was granted leave to farm in Wales and was discharged in London 12 November 1919 having given his intended residence as Llansaintffridd, North Wales. Photo possibly taken in South London just prior to demobilisation in 1919.
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