Maidenhead memorial park for WW1 VC hero Thomas Pryce

Local historian Derek Hunt, Major James Greaves, mayor Eileen Quick and family member Michael May were there for the unveiling

A World War One memorial garden has opened in Maidenhead in honour of a soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in France.

Captain Thomas Tannatt Pryce of the Grenadier Guards was last seen on 13 April 1918 in a "fierce hand-to-hand struggle" at Vieux-Berquin.

The garden at Kidwells Park features a commemorative stone in his honour.

A member of his family as well as a representative from the Grenadier Guards were there to mark the opening.

Captain Thomas Tannatt Pryce was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, but lived in Gringer Hill, Maidenhead

According to the London Gazette in May 1918, he was awarded the VC for "most conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty, and self-sacrifice".

He led two platoons to attack a village, "killing some thirty of the enemy".

The following day his platoon was attacked "no less than four times".

By the end of the day he had 17 men left out of about 40, with no ammunition left, but Capt Pryce did not surrender, the report states.

He was last seen "engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand struggle with overwhelming numbers of the enemy".

According to the report he and his men "held back at least one enemy battalion for over ten hours", which "undoubtedly stopped the advance through the British line".

Capt Pryce was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, but lived in Gringer Hill, Maidenhead.

He died aged 32 in France but his body was never found.