Westwell War Memorial

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Westwell War Memorial in Oxfordshire honors two Price brothers who died during the First World War. The monument is a rough limestone standing stone on a limestone base with two steps. A Gothic brass numeral “1” is fixed to the front and comes from the clock of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, recovered after the war. The base uses Headington stone from Brasenose Quarry.

The memorial was made by their sister, Stretta Aimee Holland (née Price), who lived at Westwell Manor nearby. It was listed as a Grade II building in 1955.

Location and meaning:
- It stands on a small triangle of grass beside a pond on the main road through Westwell, a few miles south of Burford, near the Gloucestershire border.

Who it commemorates:
- Second Lieutenant Harold Strachan Price (1881–1915), 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was killed near Bellewaarde Ridge on 24 May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres; his body was never recovered, and his name is on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
- Lieutenant Edward John “Jack” Price (1890–1918), Royal Navy, on submarine HMS E15. The submarine ran aground at Kephez Point in the Dardanelles on 17 April 1915 during Gallipoli; he was captured by the Ottomans and died of Spanish flu on 16 October 1918 in a prisoner of war camp at Yozgat, central Anatolia. He was initially buried at Yozgat and later moved to Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery in Iraq.

Inscriptions on the brass numeral explain its origin and dedication:
- Top: “TO THE BRAVE / WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ENGLAND / IN / THE GREAT WAR”
- Center: “ERECTED BY / STRETTA AIMEE HOLLAND / IN MEMORY OF / HER BROTHERS / LT HAROLD S PRICE / ROYAL FUSILIERS / LT EDD JOHN PRICE / RN”
- Bottom: “THIS BRASS NUMERAL / FORMED PART OF THE CLOCK / OF THE CLOTH HALL / AT YPRES”