Charles Hilary Vaughan Pritchard – Military Career

Brigadier Charles Hilary Vaughan Pritchard
Military Career

Commanding Officer of the 2nd Parachute Brigade.

Awards:

Distinguished Service Order (Greece 1944-45).
Commander of the Royal Order of King George I with swords (Greece).

Service Record
Courtesy of generals.dk – Full dates are available here.

1943 – Commanding Officer 6th Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

1943 – Commanding Officer 2nd Parachute Brigade, Italy.

1943-1944 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group, Italy.

1944 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group, Italy – North-West Europe.

1944 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group, Italy – Greece.

1944-1945 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group, Greece – Italy.

1945 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group, Italy.

1945-1946 – Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group.

1946-1948 – Commanding Officer Airborne Establishments.

1949 – Commanding Officer 10th Cadet Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

1949 – Retired.

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard, Commander 2nd Ind. Para . 1945 with Gen. Scobbie (At the Liberation of Athens). Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard (2nd from left). Commander of the 2nd Ind. Parachute Regiment, at Monte Cassino in 1944. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard (3rd from left). Commander of the 2nd Ind. Parachute Regiment in 1944. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Captain Charles Hilary Vaughan Pritchard. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard Vaughan. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard Vaughan's Land Rover and Sancho. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams — Brigadier C.H.V. Pritchard Vaughan’s. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney WilliamsLand Rover and Sancho

Lt. C.H.V. Pritchard, Royal Welsh Fusiliers c.1930. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

Lt. Col. C.H.V. Pritchard, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Photo courtesy of Philip Nanney Williams

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