Harry Pritchard (British Army officer)

Pritchard was the son of Colonel Hurlock Pritchard, CSI, 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 DSO for service in the Sudan.[4]

He served in the Second Boer War in 1899 and then became a Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office in 1904 before becoming Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in India in 1907.[3]

He served in World War I initially in France and Belgium and then in Egypt before being made Chief Engineer for Middle East Forces in 1916.[3] He 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]

Pritchard married at the parish church, Frimley, on 3 September 1902, Elizabeth Gilbert Furse, daughter of E. Furse, of Alphington, Frimley.[1]

• A. R. P. and high explosive by Harry Lionel Pritchard, 1938, Duckworth