Pritchard Donald 2/Lieutenant 303018 - Revision history

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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Pritchard Donald
|Army number=303018
|Rank=2/Lieutenant
|Age=26
|Unit=Served in Monmouthshire Regt as 4078012. Middlesex Regiment - Emergency Commission 2/Lt 24/12/1943, Attached to Durham Light Infantry 31/3/1944, Posted 10th Bn DLI, KILLED in ACTION 2/7/1944 with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
|Task or role=Duty Officer
|Joined Brigade=31-Mar-44
|Promotions=W/S Lt
|Died/Killed in action=02-Jul-44
|Home address=Son of Mrs E M Jones, Husband of Olive Mary Pritchard, Mayhill, Monmouthshire. Buried Grave IX. F. 2. Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery.
|Source table=10DLI
}}

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 |Army number=303018
 |Rank=2/Lieutenant
-|Date of birth=1917/18.
+|Date of birth=1918.
-|Age=26
+|Age=26 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Served in Monmouthshire Regt as 4078012.  Middlesex Regiment - Emergency Commission 2/Lt 24/12/1943. Attached to Durham Light Infantry 31/3/1944, Posted 10th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 2/7/1944 with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
+|Unit=Served in Monmouthshire Regt as 4078012.  Middlesex Regiment - Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 24/12/1943.  Attached to The Durham Light Infantry 31/3/1944 and posted to the 10th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 2/7/1944 with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
-|Task or role=Duty Officer
+|Task or role=Duty Officer.
-|Joined Brigade=31-Mar-44
+|Joined Brigade=31-Mar-44.
 |Promotions=W/S Lt.
-|Died/Killed in action=02-Jul-44
+|Died/Killed in action=02-Jul-44.  Originally interred at Brettevillette, map 7F/1, reference 893.646.
-|Home address=Born 1918.  Son of Mrs E M Jones, Husband of Olive Mary Pritchard, Mayhill, Monmouthshire.  Buried Grave IX. F. 2. Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery.
+|Home address=Son of Mrs E M Jones.  Husband of Olive Mary Pritchard, Mayhill, Monmouthshire.  Re-buried 5/3/1945 in Grave IX. F. 2. Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads "UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, MOTHER. ALWAYS REMEMBERED, WIFE OLIVE".
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}
-Lt Pritchard has been omitted from the list of those Officers from other Regiments. contained in the DLI Roll of Honour, who lost their lives while serving with the Durham Light Infantry.
+Lt Pritchard has been omitted from the list of those Officers from other Regiments. contained in the DLI Roll of Honour, who lost their lives while serving with The Durham Light Infantry.  This appears to have been an administrative error.