Perth born Horace King attended the local Claremont School and was junior member of the Claremont team when he enlisted in March 1915 at the age of 19 as a Corporal. Eighteen months later he had been promoted to Lieutenant and won the Military Cross for his actions during the Battle of Pozieres.Â
When his senior officers had become casualties, he took command and led his company with great coolness and skill under very heavy fire. On another occasion he led a party of about twenty five against the enemy, took twenty seven prisoners, and, charging forward, entered the next enemy trench and captured it with 100 prisoners. Commonwealth Gazette No. 184
A few months later he was waylaid for 77 days with a case of Gonorrhoea. By the the time he left the French hospital to return to duty he had been promoted to Captain. He was wounded in action for the first time on 4 October 1917 with a gunshot wound to his arm. A month later King was invalided to England with a fractured right humerus.
By the end of February 1918 he was back in the field with the 28th Battalion in France where he was wounded for the second time, this time fatally, when hit with shellfire to his neck and shoulder. Captain Price was at that time, standing at the entry of the Chateau of the 28th Battalion HQ at Baisieux. He died of his wounds at the age of 22 whilst being transferred to the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital and was buried with full military honours.