Henry Weston Pryce was born at Woolway Station in Monaro, New South Wales. His occupations included salesman, insurance agent, clerk, soldier and journalist. He contributed verse and stories to Australian literary journals for several years. Pryce joined the 9th Machine Gun Company of the A.I.F. on 16 June 1916 and sailed from Melbourne in October 1916. He returned to Australia on the 25 November 1917. Both his brothers died in the war. Pryce subsequently joined the staff of the Sydney Sun.
Price's papers, covering his World War I years, are held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
(Source: E. Morris Miller Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 100-101)
