WW1 Medal Pair to Price 4th Suffolk Regiment.

A good WW1 British war and victory medal correctly named to 241600 Private Stanley M Price 4th Battalion the Suffolk regiment.
Stanley Price was probably not born in Suffolk as the collection I recently acquired were all East London Men.
He was probably one of the replacements recruited after the 4th battalion’s severe losses at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915. So, when Stanley arrived in France it was with the 98th Brigade, 33rd Division and probably in time to take part in the battles at the Somme in 1916. In 1917 they saw action at the Arras Offensive and the third battle Ypres. On the 15th of February 1918 they transferred to 58th (2nd London) Division as a Pioneer Battalion. They were in action during The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of the Avre, The Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert and The Second Battle of Bapaume on the Somme. In September they fought in The Battle of Epehy and were in action in October and November during the Final Advance in Artois.
The 98th Brigade was at Sassegnies near Aulnoye when the Armistice came into force on 11 November, and went into billets around Caullery. Between 6 and 17 December it marched back to the Amiens area. Demobilisation proceeded rapidly in 1919, and the 33rd division and its brigades ceased to exist on 30 June.
Both medals are in very good original condition and come on original ribbons and come with copies of Stanley’s medal index card and medal roll. Apart from this no other research has been done on this made, so an interesting and worthwhile project awaits.

Code: 29131