| 词条 | Henry Cecil Prescott |
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|honorific_prefix= Lieutenant-Colonel |name = Henry Cecil Prescott |honorific_suffix= CMG CIE | image = | caption = |birth_date ={{Birth date|1882|03|1|df=yes}} |death_date ={{Death date and age|1960|08|03|1882|03|1|df=yes}} | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = Cheshire, England | death_place = Saint Peter, Jersey | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} {{flag|British India|23px}} | serviceyears = 1900-28 | rank = Lieutenant-Colonel | unit = | commands = | battles = South African War World War I | awards = CMG CIE MID | relations = | laterwork = Inspector-General of Iraq Police; Chief of Police, Southern Railways, India }}Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Cecil Prescott CMG CIE (1 March 1882– 3 August 1960) was Inspector-General of Police in Iraq (1920-1935) and Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in India (1935–47).[1][2] Early lifeHenry Cecil Prescott was born in Cheshire on 1 March 1882, the son of Arthur Edward Prescott (who had died at the time of the 1891 census) and Kathleen Ann Augusta Prescott.[3][4] He was educated at Bedford Modern School.[2] CareerPrescott was commissioned in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and served as a lieutenant in the Second Boer War (1901–02), for which he received the Queen’s Medal with five clasps.[2] On his return to the United Kingdom, he received a commission in a regular regiment when he was appointed second lieutenant in The South Wales Borderers on 30 April 1902.[5] In 1903 he transferred to the Indian Army in the 69th Punjabis[6] until his appointment as Assistant Superintendent in the Burma Police in January 1908.[7] In December 1910 he was made District Superintendent of three districts in Burma.[7] At the outbreak of World War I, Prescott rejoined the Indian Army; he was promoted Major in August 1916.[8] In June 1917 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Iraq Police firstly in Basra and then in Baghdad.[8] In 1918 he was made Commissioner.[8] In 1920, Prescott was made Inspector-General of the Iraq Police until his resignation in 1935.[1][9] In a statement of service, he later wrote, ‘If it had not been for the seizing of power by the opposition (many of the leaders of whom I had arrested and placed in prison for the safety of the country) I should have remained in command for some years longer’.[8] Prescott was later made Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in India for 12 years until his retirement in 1947.[1] Awards and honoursDuring World War I he was mentioned in despatches and made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1919.[2] In 1926 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), and towards the end of his service in Iraq he received the Order of the Two Rivers 2nd Class.[2] A collection of his medals were sold at auction on 2 March 2005.[10] Family lifeA keen polo player, Prescott was in the championship team of Iraq for 1933, 1934 and 1935.[8] He married Mary Augusta, daughter of Edward Chisholm.[1] They had two sons, one of whom was killed on active service in 1939.[1] Prescott eventually retired to St. Peter’s, Jersey where he died on 3 August 1960.[8][11][12] References1. ^1 2 3 4 Obituary, The Times, Lt.-Col. H. C. Prescott, 5 August 1960 {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Prescott, Henry Cecil}}2. ^1 2 3 4 Who’s Who 1935, Published by A&C Black Limited, 1935 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk|work=ancestry.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Ranieval |first=The Marquis of Ruvigny and |title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA89 89]|date=1 May 2013|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-1872-3}} 5. ^{{London Gazette| issue=27429 |pages=2862–2863 |date=29 April 1902}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Harts-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Imperial-Yeomanry-List-1907/994676/823|title=Harts Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, 1907|work=Mocavo|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+cecil+prescott+iraq&dq=henry+cecil+prescott+iraq&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CziWVb-vCeTl7gaNi4GAAw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|work=google.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 8. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) - Dix Noonan Webb|work=dnw.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241967|title=PRESCOTT, Henry Cecil (1882 - 1960), Chief of Police, retired, Southern Railway; Indian Army, retired, 1928|work=oup.com|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) - Dix Noonan Webb|work=dnw.co.uk|accessdate=29 January 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://remote.jerseyheritage.org/Details/archive/110164802|title=Jersey Heritage - Details|work=jerseyheritage.org|accessdate=3 July 2015}} 12. ^Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 9 : 1882 births|1960 deaths|Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire|Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George|People educated at Bedford Modern School|British colonial police officers|British Indian Army officers|Indian Army personnel of World War I|British police officers in India |
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