A Huge Honour, Well Deserved.

Each and every day we are being protected from the horrors of this war by the men and women of our armed services. Jeanne's son Chris is one of the thousands who keep us safe and able to live our lives with our head in the sand, oblivious to the bloodshed.

We spent time with Chris and his wife and new baby back in Novemeber when we went to England. He is a riot, all of Jeannes boys are, he is so very down to earth and just an all aound "nice guy".



Chris has been chosen by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to receive Englands highest honour, an MBE.



This is the article that was published in the London Times and Telegraph on New Years Day.



New Years Honours List 2009



SSgt Christopher Price was awarded the MBE in the new years honours list 2009.

Christopher grew up in Newton Blossomville and Olney and joined the Royal Artillery in 1991 completing his basic training at 17 Training Regiment Royal Artillery then based in Woolwich, London. He then joined 94 Locating Regiment based in Larkhill, Wiltshire. As a young Gunner he deployed to Northern Ireland prior to the peace agreement and spent the majority of his tour patrolling South Armagh by foot, helicopter and landrover. He was promoted twice in the next few years and completed successful operational tours on behalf of the United Nations in Cyprus, Under a NATO flag to Macedonia and then Kosovo in 1999 and again in 2000.

In between operational tours and training Chris continued his career as a communications specialist, or signaller. He attended many courses and was soon running his own Command post whilst overseas on deployments. At the end of 2000 he became an instructor and was then able to pass his experience and knowledge to younger soldiers. Subsequent exercises and courses in Canada, Germany, France, America, Oman, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and Wales developed his communications knowledge and experience.

Chris first deployed to Iraq on Operation Telic and has since completed 5 tours serving in Tallil, Al Amarah, Shaibah, Basra Palace and the main coalition base at Basra Airport. During his last deployment he used his extensive experience and knowledge to overcome technical communication issues with a brand new unmanned air vehicle system, maintaining complex voice and data communication networks over large distances utilising VHF, HF, UHF and other available frequency bands. Without his expertise the British forces serving in Iraq would not have had the degree of surveillance that they required, the surveillance system used was instrumental in providing intelligence for the withdrawal from Basra palace and force support for many other operations.

The technical solution that he devised was subsequently taken on by industry and has had a major impact in several multi national companies. He has completed over 17 years with the Royal Artillery and is currently serving with 32 Regiment Royal Artillery, the Army’s only Unmanned Air Vehicle Regiment. Christopher is married to Christine and has a two month old daughter, Erin.





Not only did his actions save millions of lives but also saved seventy million pounds of tax payers money.



Chris will be returning to the war zone shortly and will leaving behind his wife, yet again and leaving his daughter for the first time.

Congratulations Chris, we ALL thank you for everything that you do to keep us free and safe. This is something that you truly deserve so don't even think about down playing it!



The Man Himself!


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing