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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 414

A Superb C.B., [C.M.G.] ´Sudan´ D.S.O. Group of Fourteen to Major General H.L. Pritchard, Royal Engineers a) Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) breast Badge, converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamel, gilt worn b) Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel chip to reverse right arm c) Ashanti Star 1896 d) Queen´s Sudan 1896 (Lieut. H.L. Pritchard. R.E.) e) Queen´s South Africa, four clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Belmont, Modder River (Capt: H.L. Pritchard. D.S.O.: R.E.) f) King´s South Africa, two clasps (Capt. H.L. Pritchard. D.S.O. R.E.) g) 1914 Star, with Bar (Major H.L. Pritchard. D.S.O. R.E.) h) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves i) Jubilee 1935 j) Coronation 1937 k) Greece, Medal for Military Merit, 2nd Class l) Turkey, Order of the Medjidieh, 4th Class breast Badge, silver, gilt and enamel m) Khedive´s Sudan 1896-1908, three clasps, Hafir, Sudan 1897, Khartoum, good very fine or better, medals mounted court style as originally worn (14) Estimate £ 3,500-4,500 C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1923 C.M.G. London Gazette 1917 D.S.O. London Gazette 15.11.1898 Lieutenant H.L. Pritchard, Royal Engineers ´In recognition of services during the recent operations in Egypt and the Sudan, including the Battle of Khartoum´. Major General Harry Lionel Pritchard C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (1871-1953), educated at Charterhouse; joined Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 1891; Lieutenant 1894; Special Service in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-96 (Honourably mentioned); employed with the Egyptian Army 9.10.1896-3.12.1898; served in the Expedition to Dongola (1896), and was present at the operations of 19.9.1896 (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 3.11.1896, Order of the Medjidieh, 4th Class); served in the Nile Expedition 1897, including the Battle of Khartoum (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 30.9.1898, D.S.O. London Gazette 15.11.1898); specially employed in Cyprus 4.12.1898-16.1899; served in South Africa 1900-02 (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 29.7.1902); Captain 13.2.1902; employed on Central South African Railways 1902-04; Deputy Assistant Director, Headquarters of Army 7.11.1904-14.2.1907; Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, India 1907; Major 1911; served in the Great War on the Western Front, 14.8.1914-8.1.1915, and as Chief Engineer 16th Army Corps, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Salonika Expeditionary Force 18.2.1916-9.1.1919 (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 19.10.1914, 17.2.1915, 6.12.1916, 28.11.1917; severely wounded, C.M.G. 1917; Greece, Order of the Redeemer, 3rd Class; Greece, Medal for Military Merit, 2nd Class); temporary Brigadier General 16.2.1916-9.1.1919; advanced Lieutenant Colonel 1918; Chief Engineer Northern Command, 1921-23 (C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1923); Assistant Director Fortifcations and Works, War Office, 1923-25; Chief Engineer Eastern Command, 1925-29; Major General 1928; General Officer Commanding Malaya, 1929-31; Commandant School of Military Engineering, and Inspector of Royal Engineers and Commander Chatham Area, 1931-33; retired 1933; Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers, 1932-41.

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