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143446 'Alfgar' Alfred Cecil Giles HESKETH-PRICHARD, MC, RF & SOE: 03/12/1944, Operation Anthropoid

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard - Wikipedia
    Alfred Cecil Giles (1916–1944), known as "Alfgar". Alfgar, recruited to the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, became the first head of its Czech Section, training agents to conduct the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.[57] Alfgar Hesketh-Prichard was killed by Yugoslav Partisans in Austria on 3 December 1944[58] and was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.

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    Major Alfred Cecil Giles Hesketh-Prichard ...
    MAJOR ALFRED CECIL GILES HESKETH PRICHARD
    Service Number: 143446
    Regiment & Unit/Ship
    Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

    Date of Death
    Died 03 December 1944

    Age 28 years old

    Buried or commemorated at
    ATHENS MEMORIAL

    Face 5.

    Greece


     
  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Remembered St Lawrences church Abbotts Langley Hertfordshire

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    dbf Member

    SOE File:
    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8968520
    Reference: HS 9/1211/7
    Description: Alfred Cecil Giles HESKETH-PRICHARD - born 09.05.1916


    From the wiki link quoted above
    Hardly a "posthumous" award (not possible for MC during WW2), even given the confusion often associated with date of publication in LG.
    The recommendation for MC was instigated on 22 June 1944, Gazetted on 14 September 1944 and he died on 3 December 1944.



    Recommendation for Award for Hesketh-Pritchard, Alfred Cecil Giles Rank: ... | The National Archives
    Reference: WO 373/96/103
    Name Hesketh-Pritchard, Alfred Cecil Giles
    Rank: Temporary Major
    Service No: P/1434460 [143446]
    Regiment: No 1 Special Force CMF
    Theatre of Combat or Operation: The London Omnibus List for Gallant and Distinguished Services in the Field
    Award: Military Cross
    Date of announcement in London Gazette: 28 September 1944

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    Hesketh-Pritchard is also mentioned in Wilknson's IWM interview, he himself having been awarded DSO at same time.

    See also:



    London Gazette : 23 August 1940
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34928/supplement/5146/data.pdf
    The undermentioned Cadets, from 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th Officer Cadet Training Units, to be 2nd Lts. except as otherwise stated.
    17th Aug. 1940: —
    General List.
    Alfred Cecil Giles HESKETH-PRICHARD (143446).

    London Gazette : 18 October 1940
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34971/page/6064/data.pdf
    INTELLIGENCE CORPS.
    The undermentioned 2nd Lts., from Gen. List, to be 2nd Lts. and retain their present seniority:—
    17th Aug. 1940:—
    A. C. G. Hesketh-Prichard (143446).

    London Gazette : 14 September 1944
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36699/supplement/4249/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in .the field: —
    The Military Cross.
    Captain (temporary Major) Alfred Cecil Giles Hesketh-Pritchard (143446), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
     
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