Harry Pritchard

Major-General Harry Lionel Pritchard, (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, He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1891. 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.

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.

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. and his final appointment was as commandant of the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, Kent in February 1931.

He retired from the army in 1933.