Not much is known about Samuel Arthur Price. He was born in 1920 and was the son of Alfred Charles and Florence C. Price, of Swansea. He was married to Iris Isobel Price.

Arthur joined the British Army and became an Lance Serjeant with the Royal Engineers. He was attached to 555 Field Company which was part of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division.

Not much is known about 555 Field Company. In Gheel, Belgium, the unit constructed a 191 foot Bailey Barge Class 40 Bridge over the Albert Canal.

The bridge consisted of one 110 foot T/S and one 80ft D/S landing bay on a German 90 ton pontoon strengthened by

555 Field Company

Royal Engineers

strutting and extra buoyancy obtained by lashing two bipartite pontoons piers. 555 Field Company R.E. constructed this bridge with 71 Field Company.

Samuel was killed on 23 November 1944, when a German booby trap bomb on a Bridge near the town that he was defusing, blew up. For many years afterwards the bridge was known as “Price Bridge”. Samuel was 24 years old.

Lance Serjeant Samuel Price is buried at Swartbroek Cemetery.

Swartbroek, The Netherlands

Sources and Acknowledgements:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 

Directions to Swartbroek Cemetery

Posted 25 January 2009

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