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| − | [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] '''Cecil Irby Prowse''', Royal Navy ( | + | [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] '''Cecil Irby Prowse''', Royal Navy (26 September, 1866 – 31 May, 1916) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. |
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| + | From 16 May, 1906 to 1 August, Prowse was appointed for study at the Army's Staff College at Camberley.<ref name=Record>ADM 196/42/ p. 423.</ref> | ||
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| + | Prowse's younger brother, Brigadier-General Charles Bertie Prowse, C.B., D.S.O., was killed a month later on 1 July during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He had decided to move his 11th Brigade headquarters into the captured German front line, and while assembling men of the Seaforth Highlanders in the British trenches he was shot in the back by machine gun fire.<ref>Davies; Maddocks. ''Bloody Red Tabs''. pp. 99-100.</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Footnotes== | ||
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| + | ==Bibliography== | ||
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| + | *Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). ''Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914-1918''. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-50520463-6. | ||
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| + | ==Service Record== | ||
| + | *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7917796&queryType=1&resultcount=1 ADM 196/42] | ||
[[Category:1866 births|Prowse]] | [[Category:1866 births|Prowse]] | ||
[[Category:1916 deaths|Prowse]] | [[Category:1916 deaths|Prowse]] | ||
[[Category:Personalities|Prowse]] | [[Category:Personalities|Prowse]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Commanding Officers of H.M.S. Nelson (1876)|Prowse]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Commanding Officers of H.M.S. Powerful (1895)|Prowse]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Commanding Officers of H.M.S. Queen Mary (1912)|Prowse]] | ||
[[Category:Royal Navy Captains|Prowse]] | [[Category:Royal Navy Captains|Prowse]] | ||
[[Category:Royal Navy Officers Killed on Active Service|Prowse]] | [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Killed on Active Service|Prowse]] | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 16 September 2009
Captain Cecil Irby Prowse, Royal Navy (26 September, 1866 – 31 May, 1916) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
From 16 May, 1906 to 1 August, Prowse was appointed for study at the Army's Staff College at Camberley.[1]
Prowse's younger brother, Brigadier-General Charles Bertie Prowse, C.B., D.S.O., was killed a month later on 1 July during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He had decided to move his 11th Brigade headquarters into the captured German front line, and while assembling men of the Seaforth Highlanders in the British trenches he was shot in the back by machine gun fire.[2]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914-1918. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-50520463-6.
