Tony Price was born in Stafford in 1923. After attending Stafford Grammar School he studied dentistry at Birmingham University. The War had just started and his studies were punctuated with nights spent fire-watching on the rooftops of local factories. With a bucket of sand and a long-handled shovel, he would race to extinguish the German fire bombs before they could ignite whichever building he was guarding.

He was on duty on the night of 14 November 1940 when Coventry was bombed and remembered watching the glow on the horizon as the city burned. The next day, together with fellow members of the Birmingham University Officer Training Corps, he went to help tend the wounded and clear up the mess.

Qualifying on 22 December 1944, Tony joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant and was posted as Dental Officer to the cruiser HMS Bermuda, the flagship of the Pacific Battle Fleet. His surgery was perilously close to the main gun turrets and whenever they fired, the shockwave would blow everything off his shelves. On one occasion the surgery door was blown off while a patient was in the chair.

Nicknamed 'Toothy' because of his profession, during his time aboard HMS Bermuda he visited Ceylon, Australia, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, China and Japan. His most intense memories were of walking through the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where he recalled picking up a salt cellar, the glass contorted by the intense heat of the devastating blast.

In 1948 Tony left the Navy and joined his elder brother Don Price in his dental practice in Stafford where he met his brother's dental nurse, Elvina Sillito. In 1950 they were married and moved to south London where Tony established his own practice in Middleton Road, Morden. He spent the next decades building his practice, raising his family, and indulging his passion for cars, spending hours in his garage tinkering with engines.

Tony Price passed away on Saturday 23 April in St George's Hospital Tooting after a short illness. He is survived by his wife and two children.