78432 Lieutenant The Hon. Terence Cornelius Farmer PRITTIE, MBE, MiD, Rifle Brigade

Personal Number: 78432
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: Terence Cornelius Farmer PRITTIE, MBE, MiD
Unit: Rifle Brigade


London Gazette : 20 September 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37274/supplement/4683/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Defence of Calais in May, 1940.
Rifle Bde.
2/Lt. The Hon. T. C. F. PRITTIE (78432)
(The ranks shown against the names of the above officers are those held by them at the time they were recommended)

London Gazette : 5 December 1946
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37808/supplement/5947/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of gallant arid distinguished services in the field: —
To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order:—
Lieutenant The Honourable Terence Corniluis Farmer PRITTIE (78432), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own).

London Gazette : 9 November 1948
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38451/supplement/5882/data.pdf
Rifle Bde.
War Subs. Lt. Hon. T. C. F. PRITTIE (78432) from Supp. Res. of Offrs., to be Lt., 9th Nov. 1948, with seniority, 1st Jan. 1941.

 

London Gazette : 20 September 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37274/supplement/4683/data.pdf

 

Name: Terrence C F Prittie . Date of Birth: 15/12/1913 . Place of Birth: London . ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/296/419
Name: Terrence C F Prittie.
Date of Birth: 15/12/1913.
Place of Birth: London.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lieutenant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Service Number: 78432.
Date of Capture: 29/05/1940.
Theatre of Capture: Abberville.
Camp Name/Number: Oflag VIIC Laufen.
PoW number: 928.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

Recommendation for Award for Prittie, Terence Rank: Lieutenant Service No: ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 373/103/1203
Name Prittie, Terence
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 78432
Regiment: The Rifle Brigade
Theatre of Combat or Operation: The London Omnibus List for Gallant and Distinguished Services in the Field
Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 14 March 1947

 

See also:

• Person Page
• Lady Dunalley and family - National Portrait Gallery
• Prittie, Terence Cornelius Farmer, (1913-1985), Journalist and Author | The National Archives
  
• Prisoner of War Postcard, 1942
  
• Postcard sent in July 1942 by a British prisoner of war in Oflag VIB (Dossel/Warburg) to a lady in Scotland, informing her in thinly veiled terms of an escape attempt from the camp involving her son or husband (?); the card mentions a Terence Prittie, and probably concerns one of the many break-out attempts conducted in various German camps by that veteran escaper, as described in his book 'South To Freedom: A Record of Escape' (The Honourable T C F Prittie MBE and Captain W Earle Edwards MBE, first published in 1946).
  
• South to freedom,: A record of escape; by T.C.F. PRITTIE MBE, & W. Earle EDWARDS, MBE
  
• https://www.britishmilitaryhistory..../2020/12/9.-Officers-Rifle-Brigade-Calais.pdf
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• 26558 Captain William Earle EDWARDS, MBE, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

 

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