Charles Basil Price
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Charles Basil Price ("C.B." or "Basil") (12 December 1890 - 15 February 1975) was a Canadian Army soldier who served in World War I and World War II. He married Marjorie Trenholme (3 November 1891 - 1 September 1979) in August 1915 and the couple raised six children.
[edit] The Great War and after
As a major in the Royal Montreal Regiment, he received the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and took command of the Royal Montreal Regiment until his retirement on 31 December 1929.
In 1939 he was President of the Brome Lake Boating Club at Knowlton, Quebec.
[edit] World War II and postwar life
He re-enlisted and was posted to England. As a major-general, he commanded the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division from 14 March 1941 until 7 September 1942, when he became the Overseas Commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross Society. In that post, which he held until the war ended, he strove to ensure that all Allied prisoners of war received equal benefits, including one large Red Cross parcel per month containing the best food available (white-flour biscuits; butter instead of oleomargarine, etc.). After V-E Day he ran for political office as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Saint-Antoine—Westmount, losing to the Liberal incumbent Douglas Charles Abbott by just 60 votes in the 1945 federal election. Later he retired and moved to Knowlton.
[edit] References
Stacey, Colonel C. P. (1955). Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific. Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery.
Vance, Jonathan F. (1997). Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
