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{{Short description|British Army general (1874–1950)}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce
|image=Henry ap Rhys Pryce.jpg
|caption=General ap Rhys Pryce in 1936
|rank=[[General (United Kingdom)|General]]
|branch={{army|British India|23px}}
|commands= Senior Officers' School at [[Belgaum]]<br/>Presidency and Assam District<br/>Deccan District
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|battles=[[World War I]]
|awards= [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]]<br/>[[Distinguished Service Order]]
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|nickname=
|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
|birth_name= Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce
|birth_date=30 November 1874
|death_date={{dda|21 June 1950|30 November 1874|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Cuttack]], British India
|death_place= [[Bournemouth]], Dorset, England
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[[General]] '''Sir Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce''', [[Order of the Bath|KCB]], [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (30 November 1874 – 21 June 1950) was a Welsh officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] who served Master-General of the Ordnance in [[British India]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Gen. Sir H. Ap Rhys Pryce |work=[[The Times]] |date= 27 June 1950 |page=8 }}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Pryce was born in [[Cuttack]], [[British India]], the son of Lt.-Col. Douglas Davidson Pryce and Georgie Hunter Carter. His younger brother was soldier of fortune [[Carol Ap Rhys Pryce]]. He was educated at [[Glenalmond College|Trinity College, Glenalmond]], and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name="times"/>

==Military career==
Pryce began his military career on the unattached list in 1895. He served his first year in India with the 1st Battalion, the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]], followed by a posting to the 18th Infantry, the 10th/9th Jats, and the Supply and Transport Corps. As a master of transport, he commanded a mule corps in the [[British expedition to Tibet]], 1903–04. He later authored ''Transport Training Notes'', which served for many years as a valuable handbook to the corps. He then graduated from the [[Staff College, Quetta]], and in 1912 began a distinguished career at Army Headquarters at [[Shimla]].<ref name="times"/>

He served in the [[World War I|First World War]] during which he was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] and [[mentioned in dispatches]] seven times.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6624649/A-sublime-act-of-forgiveness.html|title=A sublime act of forgiveness|work=The Telegraph|location=London|date=22 November 2009|accessdate=27 June 2015}}</ref>

Pryce became Commandant of the [[Senior Officers' School, Belgaum]] in December 1920<ref name=commands>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=27 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archivedate=5 July 2015 }}</ref> and Director of Supplies and Transport in India in 1927.<ref name=iwm>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030033488|title=Private Papers of General Sir Henry Ap Rhys Pryce KCB CMG DSO|publisher=Imperial War Museum|accessdate=27 June 2015}}</ref> He went on to be General Officer Commanding Presidency and Assam District in October 1929, General Officer Commanding Deccan District in December 1930 and Master-General of the Ordnance in India in April 1934.<ref name=commands/> He was promoted to full [[general]] in May 1936.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34284|page=3148|date=15 May 1936}}</ref>

He was appointed [[Colonel (United Kingdom)#Ceremonial usage|Honorary Colonel]] of [[99th (London Welsh) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery]], when that [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] unit was raised in 1939, and he regularly visited it during [[World War II]].<ref>99 HAA Rgt War Diary, 1939–41, [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives (TNA), Kew]], file WO 166/2389.</ref>

==Personal life==

Pryce married Alice Louise Pughe, daughter of Robertson Francis Home Pughe, in 1900. They had two sons, Meyrick Home ap Rhys Pryce (1902–1965) and Mervyn Aleck ap Rhys Pryce (1905–1940), who was killed in action in France while serving in the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]].<ref name="times"/><ref>{{CWGC|id=2766827|name=ap Rhys Pryce, Mervyn Aleck|access-date=23 May 2019}}</ref>

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