Donald Chamberlain Price
Person details
| Forename(s) | Donald Chamberlain |
|---|---|
| Surname | Price |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Regiment | Queen's Regiment |
| Age | 34 |
| Death | Killed by an Allied air attack as a POW |
| Place of Death | Western Europe > Germany |
| Date of Death | 14/04/1945 |
| Year of Entry | 1924 |
| House Letter | E |
| School Notes | Science Sixth |
| Comments | |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 2/7th Battalion |
| Prefect | School Prefect |
| Military Decorations | |
| Album Number | 23 |
| Battle | |
| Previous Regiment | |
| Burial or Cemetery | Germany > Durnbach |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | In business; Territorial Army |
| Prep School | |
| Prisoner of War | Captured after Dunkirk |
| Radlein Obituary |
November 17 1940. Recorded as prisoner of war June 17 1945. On April 14th, I945, in an air attack, Donald Chamberlain Price, Lt., The Queen's R (T) (Newman's-Hope's, E. 1924-29). Donald Price took a prominent part in the life of the School while at Radley. He was a School Prefect. in the Science Sixth, had a place in the Athletic Team and was in the 2nd XV, but it will be as a wet-bob that his contemporaries will remember him. He rowed "7" in the Eights of I928 and 1929, and was Captain of Boats in the latter year. On leaving. he went into business and, as he kept up his rowing - he stroked Thames RC. in the Grand in I932 - we often met him at Henley and at Marlow. In the summer of 1939, before war broke out, he obtained a Territorial commission in the Queen's Regiment, and went to France in the first winter of the war. He was taken prisoner at Dunkirk time, and was in Germany for nearly five years during which time he was constantly in touch with us in College. One of his last letters expressed his pleasure at the successes of his old Social on the river in 1944 and he sent his personal congratulations to the crews. A fellow-prisoner writes that it was Price who was chiefly responsible for getting O.Rs together both at Laufen and at Oflag VII B. The tragic end came just as liberation was in sight. |
| Service Number | 93817 |
| Place of Birth |
