Francis James Price
Private 81293 - 2nd Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died of wounds on Wednesday 20th November 1918 age 25
Buried in Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy
Francis James Price was born in Gnosall in 1893, the son of 23-year-old maltster and
ale-dealer Joshua Price and Kate Edith, nee Wynne, from Stone, aged 25.
Joshua had grown up at The Brook, and his widowed mother, Fanny Price, nee
Bellingham, lived between the Anchor Inn and Brook House. Joshua and Edith had
married at Gnosall on 5
th
February 1891.
In 1901 the family were living at Brook House opposite the current Post Office. Joshua
Price was a maltster. Also
present were Francis, his
mother Kate Edith, a sister
and three brothers (two of
the children had a middle
name Wynne).
By 1911 Francis was still at
Brook House, listed as
“Farmers Son Working On
Farm”, and living with his
71-year-old grandmother
Fanny Price (born at
Oulton, Norbury). She had
private means. Four
brothers and a sister were
also there. Joshua (Maltster, employer) and Kate were visiting the Newton family in
Tutbury.
Francis enlisted in Woolwich, into the East Surrey Regiment, G/26429 and later joined the
2nd Battalion of The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), G/81293.
He died of wounds in Italy on Wednesday 20th November 1918, age 25 and is buried in
Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy II. A. 25. He was awarded the Victory and British
medals.
“Their name liveth for evermore” – Mr J Price, Brook House, Gnosall
Staglieno Cemetery
Historical Information
The Italians entered the war on the Allied side, declaring war on Austria, in May 1915.
Commonwealth forces were at the Italian front between November 1917 and November
1918, and rest camps and medical units were established at various locations in northern
Italy behind the front, some of them remaining until 1919.
From November 1917 to the end of the war, Genoa was a base for commonwealth forces
and the 11th General, and 38th and 51st Stationary Hospitals, were posted in the city.
Staglieno Cemetery contains 230 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are
also 122 Second World War graves, most of them garrison burials, whilst others were
brought in from the surrounding country.