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Thomas Price (soldier)
Thomas Caradoc Rose Price CB (21 October 1842 – 3 July 1911), often known as Colonel Tom Price, was an Australian soldier, and acting commandant of the Commonwealth Military Forces in Victoria in 1902. Joining the British Indian Army in his early his, he served 20 years in India before returning to Australia. In 1885, he raised the Victorian Mounted Rifles, and was instrumental in establishing the concept of light horse units within the Australian Army. In 1900, he led a Victorian contingent during the Second Boer War, and was the only Australian officer during that war to command a force of British regulars. He remained in the Australian military after the war, serving in Queensland until 1904 when he was medically discharged. He retired to Victoria again and died in 1911 at the age of 68.
==Early life==
Price was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 21 October 1842.〔Dennis et al 1995, p. 472.〕 He was the fourth son of John Price, a police magistrate and convict superintendent, who was the fourth son of Cornish Australian〔Rowse, A.L. ''The Cousin Jacks, The Cornish in America''〕 Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet of the Price Baronets.〔Searle 1949.〕 He received some basic education in Hobart and from 1854 was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne. In December 1859, he entered the East India Military College, in Addiscombe, England, and was commissioned in 1861 into the Madras Infantry.〔Coulthard-Clark 1988, pp. 289–290.〕
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