Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies

Major General Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, VC, CB, CMG, DSO (30 June 1878 – 26 December 1965) was a senior British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

The Davies family were of Welsh descent with an unbroken male line to the 13th-century noble Cynric Efell, Lord of Eglwys Egle.

[4] Price-Davies was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place at Blood River Poort for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross: At Blood River Poort, on the 17th September, 1901, when the Boers had overwhelmed the right of the British Column, and some 400 of them were galloping round the flank and rear of the guns, riding up to the drivers (who were trying to get the guns away) and calling upon them to surrender, Lieutenant Price Davies, hearing an order to fire upon the charging Boers, at once drew his revolver and dashed in among them, firing at them in a most gallant and desperate attempt to rescue the guns.

[17] He was also made an Officer of the French Legion of Honour[18] and Commander of the Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

[20] In retirement he joined the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms[21] and served as Battalion Commander in the Home Guard from 1940 to 1945.