Memorial Georges Lawrence Price Ville-Sur-Haine

Monument in memory of Canadian soldier Georges Lawrence Price.

On 11 November 1918 at 10.58h, just two minutes before the Armistice, Private George Lawrence Price of the 28th Canadian Infantry Battalion was killed by a German sniper at Ville-sur-Haine.
A Nova Scotia native from Canada’s Atlantic coast, George Price was 26 years old. He was the last soldier of the Commonwealth to be killed during the First World War.
This memorial is built at the spot where George Price died in 1918. He is buried in St. Symphorien Military Cemetery.

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge