Lieutenant, Royal Artillery
Born: March 6th 1914
Died: January 5th 1944
Age at Death: 29
Killed by enemy action, January 5th 1944
Rhys was born on 6 March 1914 to Ernest Price and his wife Beatrice (née Pawley). At the College he established a niche playing female parts in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, as a schoolfellow of Yum Yum in The Mikado, a daughter of General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, and Dame Carruthers, housekeeper of the Tower, in The Yeomen of the Guard.
During the war he served with the Royal Artillery, initially in India and then back in England – he was probably disqualified from front-line duties because of his poor eyesight. In January 1944 Price was stationed as an anti-aircraft officer with the 131st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment at St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings. While on duty he was killed by a bomb dropped from a German plane. He left a widow, Irene, and is buried at Hove Cemetery.
To mark Remembrance in 2023, a Brighton College family visited Hove Cemetery, and placed flowers and a poppy on Rhys’ grave.