Cecil Irby Prowse
Captain Cecil Irby Prowse, Royal Navy (26 September, 1866 – 31 May, 1916) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Prowse was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 January, 1890.[1]
Prowse was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1901.[2]
Captain
Prowse was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1907.[3]
From 16 May to 1 August, 1906 Prowse was appointed for study at the Army's Staff College at Camberley.[4]
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.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 26007. p. 7553. 31 December, 1889.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27335. p. 4780. 19 July, 1901.
- ↑ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28034. p. 4433. 28 June, 1907.
- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 196/42. p. 423.
- ↑ Davies; Maddocks. pp. 99-100.
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.
- James, Admiral Sir William (1951). The Sky was Always Blue. London: Methuen & Co..
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42.
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