Английская Википедия:Harry Pritchard (British Army officer)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Major-General Harry Lionel Pritchard, Шаблон:Post-nominals (16 November 1871 – 14 May 1953) was a British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Malaya Command from 1929 to 1931.
Military career
Pritchard was the son of Colonel Hurlock Pritchard, of Camberley,[1] and was educated at Charterhouse School.[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1891.[3] He took part in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1895 and was then transferred to the Egyptian Army in 1896, taking part in the Siege of Khartoum the following year.[3] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for service in the Sudan.[4]
Pritchard served in the Second Boer War in 1899 and then became a Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office in 1904. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in India in 1907.[3]
Pritchard served in the First World War, initially in France and Belgium and then in Egypt. He was made Chief Engineer for Middle East Forces in 1916,[3] and was severely wounded in 1917.[5]
After the war, he was appointed Chief Engineer at Northern Command in 1921 and then Assistant Director for Fortifications and Works at the War Office in 1923.[3]
In 1926, he was appointed Chief Engineer for Eastern Command and, in 1929, he became General Officer Commanding Malaya Command.[3] His final appointment was as Commandant of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham in 1931; he retired in 1933.[3]
Family
Pritchard married Elizabeth Gilbert Furse, daughter of E. Furse, of Alphington, Frimley, at the parish church, Frimley, on 3 September 1902.[1]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
- ↑ Charterhouse Register 1872–1900
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ↑ Spink Medal Newsletter February 2005
- ↑ Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria Spink Auction, 28 April 2005.
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