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

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.


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

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• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Awards Military Cross
• Additional Info Son of Maj. H. V. Hesketh Prichard, D.S.O., M.C., and of Lady Elizabeth Hesketh Prichard, of Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire. B.Sc. Hons. (Cantab.).
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• His Father
• Major Hesketh Vernon “Hex” Hesketh-Prichard
  Major Hesketh Vernon “Hex” Hesketh-Prichard ...
  Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard - Wikipedia

 

Remembered St Lawrences church Abbotts Langley Hertfordshire

 

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





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

• 62882 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Peter Allix WILKINSON, KCMG, DSO, OBE, Royal Fusiliers & SOE

See also:

• Person Page - appears to contain some errors
• "Alfgar Cecil Giles Hesketh-Prichard was born on 9 May 1916.1 He was the son of Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard and Lady Elizabeth Grimston.1 He died on 3 December 1944 at age 28 at Austria, killed in action.1
  He was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England.1 He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.1 He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)1 He was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.)1 He gained the rank of officer in the Royal Fusiliers.1 He gained the rank of Second World War in the where he was mentioned in dispatches.1"

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).