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 St Aglieno
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
St Aglieno 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.
St Aglieno 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.