Pritchard was the son of Colonel Hurlock Pritchard, of
Camberley, He was
commissioned into the
Royal Engineers in 1891. He took part in the
Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1895 and was then transferred to the
Egyptian Army in 1896, taking part in the
Siege of Khartoum the following year. Pritchard served in the
Second Boer War in 1899 and then became a Deputy Assistant Director at the
War Office in 1904. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in India in 1907. After the war, he was appointed Chief Engineer at
Northern Command in 1921 and then Assistant Director for Fortifications and Works at the War Office in 1923. and his final appointment was as
commandant of the
School of Military Engineering at
Chatham, Kent in February 1931. He retired from the army in 1933. ==Family==