Lieutenant Llewellyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies DSO

The King's Royal Rifle Corps attached to The Mounted Infantry

Born: 30 June 1878 at Marrington Hall, Chirbury, Salop.

Died: 26 December 1965 at Corndon, Sonning, Berks.

Buried: St Andrews Churchyard, Sonning. Headstone.

Commissioned: 23 December 1898.

CITATION

At Blood River Poort, South Africa, on the 17th September 1901, when the Boers had overwhelmed the right of the British column, and some four hundred of them were galloping round the flank and rear of the guns, riding up to the drivers (who were trying to get the guns away) and calling upon them to surrender, Lieutenant Price-Davies, hearing an order to fire upon the charging Boers, at once drew his revolver and dashed upon them, firing at them in a most gallant and desperate attempt to rescue the guns. He was immediately shot and knocked off his horse but was not mortally wounded although he had ridden to what seemed to be almost certain death without a moment's hesitation.