Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Brecknockshire
Town
Llanafan Fawr
County
Powys
Country
Wales
Commemoration
Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
79763

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Current location

Left hand wall facing altar
St. Afan's Church
B4358
Llanafan Fawr
Brecknockshire
Powys
LD2 3PN
Wales

OS Grid Ref: SN 96902 55785
Denomination: Church in Wales

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Description
Brass plaque commemorating Captain Rhys Price, 1st Welch Regiment.
Inscription
TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN LOVING MEMORY OF / THE REV. JOHN PRICE, M.A. / RECTOR OF LLANVEIGAN, BRECON, FOR 41 YEARS / ELDEST SON OF REES PRICE OF DOLVELYN, IN THIS PARISH / WHO DIED OCT. 8TH 1916, AGED 81 YEARS. / ALSO OF JOHN PRICE, SOLICITOR, BRECON / WHO DIED JULY 10TH 1932, AGED 68 YEARS. / CAPT. RHYS PRICE, 1ST WELCH REGIMENT / WHO DIED AT MODDER RIVER, S. AFRICA / IN MARCH 1900, AGED 35 YEARS. / SONS OF THE ABOVE REV. JOHN PRICE / ERECTED BY HIS WIFE & DAUGHTERS.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Price, Rhys
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Commemorations
  • Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: rank, forename, surname, regiment, place of death, date of death, age, relationships
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • DEATH OF A WELSH OFFICER. The "Brecon Express" records the death, at Modder River, of Captain Rhys Price, of the 41st Welsh Regiment. Captain Price took part in the march to the relief of Kimberley, and also in Lord Roberts's ever-memorable and critical movement on Paardeberg. In this latter engagement he was wounded, and fell a victim to blood poisoning. The gallant officer, who was very popular with his regiment, and held in high esteem by a large number of friends at home, was the second son of the Rev. John Price, rector of Llanfigan, and was born in June, 1865, and therefore had not completed his thirty-fifth year. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, where he had successful career, full of promise for the future. It had been his intention to enter the medical profession, and with that view he passed the London Matriculation Examination in 1885. He, however, changed his mind and entered the Army. On the 8th December, 1888 (via the Breconshire Militia) he was gazetted second-lieutenant in the 41st Welsh Regiment, obtaining a step in 1890 and his company last year. He was ordered to the front in the first Egyptian campaign, but, the war ending abruptly, he did not then see active service. He was well known in South Wales as an athlete; at cricket and football he excelled; indeed, he was a good allround sportsman, and a musician to boot. Captain Price was descended from one of the oldest families in Breconshire: the Prices, of Cwmwhefry and Dolefelin. The former was in possession of the family before the Cromwellian period, and it has continued in unbroken succession from father and son to the present day, the present owner being Captain Price's father. One of his ancestors was sheriff of Brecon and Radnor in the eighteenth century, and several members of the family were sheriffs of Brecon in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Captain Price and his family have many friends in this neighbourhood who will be sorry to hear of his death. His father was for ten years (1865-75) rector of Stratton-on-the-Fosse, in this diocese, and remembered with pleasure by many of the parishioners as well as many families in the city and county, who will sympathise with him in his sorrow. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 22 March 1900 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000221/19000322/026/0003

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