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词条 Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce
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  1. Military career

  2. References

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General Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce, KCB, CMG, DSO (1874 – 21 June 1950) was a British Indian Army officer who served Master-General of the Ordnance in India.

Military career

Pryce served in the First World War during which he was awarded the DSO and mentioned in dispatches seven times.[1]

Pryce became Commandant of the Senior Officers' School, Belgaum in December 1920[2] and Director of Supplies and Transport in India in 1927.[3] He went on to be General Officer Commanding Presidency and Assam District in October 1929, General Officer Commanding Deccan District in December 1930 and Master-General of the Ordnance in India in April 1934.[2] He was promoted to full general in May 1936.[4]

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of 99th (London Welsh) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, when that Territorial Army unit was raised in 1939, and he regularly visited it during World War II.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6624649/A-sublime-act-of-forgiveness.html|title=A sublime act of forgiveness|publisher=The Telegraph|date=22 November 2009|accessdate=27 June 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=27 June 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archivedate=5 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030033488|title=Private Papers of General Sir Henry Ap Rhys Pryce KCB CMG DSO|publisher=Imperial War Museum|accessdate=27 June 2015}}
4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34284|page=3148|date=15 May 1936}}
5. ^99 HAA Rgt War Diary, 1939–41, The National Archives (TNA), Kew, file WO 166/2389.
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