Major-General Harry Lionel Pritchard, CB, CMG, DSO (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]

Bibliography

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

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