Thomas Pryce

Who was Thomas Pryce?

Thomas Tannatt Pryce VC MC & Bar was a Netherlands-born Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was born at The Hague, son of Thomas and Rosalie Pryce, of Pentreheylin Hall, Montgomeryshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School after preparatory schooling at Mill Mead School, Shrewsbury.

He was a member of the London Stock Exchange. He was a married man at time of his death.

He originally served with the Honourable Artillery Company, which he joined in August 1914, transferred to the 6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in 1915, and again transferred, to the Grenadier Guards by the time of his VC award.

Pryce was 32 years old and an acting captain in the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, British Army, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 11 April 1918 at Vieux-Berquin, France, Captain Pryce led two platoons in a successful attack on a village. Early next day he was occupying a position with some 40 men, the rest having become casualties.