In memory of

Private

George Lawrence Price

November 11, 1918 at 10:58am
Mons, Belgium
Military Service:
Age:
25
Force:
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Unit:
28th North West Battalion
Division:
A Company
Citation:
Recognized as the last Canadian soldier to die on the Western Front in the First
World War

Additional Information:
Date and Place of Birth: December 15, 1892 in Falmouth, Nova Scotia
Family Members:

(Parents) James E. and Annie R. Price of Port Williams, Kings County, Nova

Scotia.
Before being drafted, Private Price had been working as a farm labourer in Moose
Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Interests:

Private Price was part of a plan patrol to take the Havr village in Belgium. On
November 11, 1918, Private Price and his patrol crossed into a town called Ville-sur-Haine
where the Germans were shooting machine guns. The patrol went into a home where they
thought the Germans were shooting from, but nobody was there. What they did not know is that
the Germans went out the backdoor. The patrol went into the next home where nobody was
either. When the patrol left the home onto the street, a German sniper struck Private George
Lawrence Price in the chest at 10: 58 a.m..
Anecdotes:

George died just two minutes before a ceasefire was called ending the war. Price was buried
in Havre Old Communal Cemetery. On the 50th anniversary of his death and the ceasefire, the
survivors of his patrol went to his place of death and put a plaque on the wall of a home that he
had died close to.
The town also honored him by naming a bridge after him called, The George Price
Footbridge.