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Walter Price Died 11th April 1918
Walter’s parents, William and Mary worked in the Mansion House at Adlestrop, William as a gardener. It was a large house with around 10 domestic staff. We lose track of Walter until 1910 when, at the age of 36 he marries Florence Watson of Bath. Walter then appears in 1911, living in Waterloo Road in Wokingham, Berkshire and working as a gardener. He is however, either living alone or the record is incomplete.
We know Walter joined the RASC at Hartley Witney and later the Labour Corps, but he was killed on 11th April 1918 and probably during the German Spring Offensive. He was 44 years old, quite old for a private soldier.
Walter’s grandnephew Roy Phillips, tells us: “Walter Price’s sister Edith was my maternal grandmother. She married Willie Langley on 24 Feb 1900 at Wokingham and they went to live in Shinfield. He died on 8 Jul 1923 and she on 25 Jan 1927. Willie was the son of Henry James Langley and Elizabeth Kennington, he was possibly also the brother of Frank Langley who died on 5 March 1917, but I cannot yet confirm that. Walter had two additional sisters, Margaret Ellen born 1865 and Caroline born 1870. Walter’s grandfather Edward born in 1793 in Bromsgrove, fought at Waterloo”.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson’s Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Adlestrop like this:
ADDLESTROP, a parish in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; on the river Evenlode, 3½ miles ENE of Stow-on-the-Wold. It has a station, with Stow-Road, on the West Midland railway. Post Town, Stow-on-the-Wold, under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1,285. Real property, £1,913. Pop., 184. Houses, 42. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Evesham, passed at the dissolution to Sir Thomas Leigh, and is now the property of Lord Leigh. Addlestrop House, the seat of his lordship, is a large and interesting mansion, partly of considerable antiquity, amid beautiful grounds laid out by Adey Repton. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Broadwell, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1764, and is in good condition.
Name: PRICE
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps Unit Text: 32nd Labour Coy. Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps Secondary Unit Text: transf. to (310767) 4th Company.
Age: 44
Date of Death: 11/04/1918
Service No: T4/142449
Additional information: Husband of F. L. Price, of Vine Cottage, Claverton, nr. Bath.
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXIII. G. 16A. Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Vine Cottage, Claverton, nr. Bath.
Waterloo Road, Wokingham, Berkshire
Walter Price’s sister Edith was my maternal grandmother. She married Willie Langley on 24 Feb 1900 at Wokingham and they went to live in Shinfield. He died on 8 Jul 1923 and she on 25 Jan 1927. Willie was the son of Henry James Langley and Elizabeth Kennington and had two additional sisters, Margaret Ellen born 1865 and Caroline born 1870. Walter’s grandfather Edward born in 1793 in Bromsgrove fought at Waterloo. I have more info.