Anne Emily Pritchard
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Oct 1860 - Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Death:
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Parents
Father: Henry Pritchard
Mother: Lucy Walker
Charles Pritchard
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1871 - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Christening:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Henry Pritchard
Mother: Lucy Walker
Clara Ellen Pritchard
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1872 - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Christening:
Death: Abt 1873
Burial:
Parents
Father: Henry Pritchard
Mother: Lucy Walker
Edwin Pritchard
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1857 - Portobello, Willenhall
Christening:
Death: 1934 - Wolverhampton
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Parents
Father: William Pritchard
Mother: Matilda
Spouses and Children
1. *Ann Martin (kc)
Marriage: 1888 - Wolverhampton
2. Martha Harris
Marriage: 1909 - Wolverhampton
Notes
General:
Marriage Notes (Martha Harris)
1861: 4 High St, Portobello. William Pritchard 39, w Matilda 40, Anne 12, Edwin 4, Mary 2
1871:
1881: 15 High St, Portobello. William Pritchard 58, w Lydia 55, Edwin 24 Painter, Thomas 19
1891: 22 High St, Portobello. Edwin Pritchard 34, w Ann 50, ch William Southall 19, Bertha Southall 16, Eliza Southall 16
1901: 9 High St, Portobello. Edwin Pritchard 44, w Ann 60, Bertha 27 & her hus Herbert Saunders 25 & s Joseph W 3m. Also gd Annie Shepherd 14 (Sarah's dau?)
1911: 17 High St, Portobello. Edwin Pritchard 54 Painter & Decorator, w2 Martha 49 b:Ettingshall
d: Edwin Pritchard 78 Jul-Sep 1934 Wolverhampton 6b 504
Edwin Pritchard & Martha Harris Apr-Jun 1909 Wolverhampton 6b 1129
George Washington Pritchard
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Nov 1858 - PA, USA
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Death:
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Parents
Father: Henry Pritchard
Mother: Lucy Walker
Notes
General:
Note from Henry Pritchard V re picture: " I believe this to be:
Standing is John Ramsey (b.1850), George Washington Pritchard (b.1858) [questionable]
Sitting is Lily (Pritchard) Mathers (b.1866), Lucy (Walker) Pritchard (b.1828), and Lucy Jane (Pritchard) Ramsey (b. 1856)"
Gertrude K Pritchard
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1905 - Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Death:
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Parents
Father: William John Pritchard
Mother: Margaret Baker
Henry Pritchard
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1832
Christening:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Lucy Walker
Marriage: 26 Dec 1853
Children:
1. Henry Edward Paul Pritchard
2. Lucy Jane Pritchard
3. George Washington Pritchard
4. Anne Emily Pritchard
5. Kate Louise Pritchard
6. Albert Walker Pritchard
7. Lily Mary Pritchard
8. William John Pritchard
9. Charles Pritchard
10. Clara Ellen Pritchard
Notes
General:
credit: R.Szendy & Henry Pritchard V
Children:
Henry Edward Paul Pritchard b. 16 Mar 1856 in Philadelphia, PA d. 1 Jan 1901
m Ann Mathers b. in PA
m Albertina Charlotta Endebrock b. 25 Oct 1867 in PA m. say 1885 d. 1 Apr 1895
>Henry Edward Paul Pritchard Sr. b. 28 Mar 1896 in Philadelphia, PA
>m. 9 Jul 1927 Hazel Amelia Smith b. 12 Jun 1905 in West Advocate, Cumberland, NS d. 4 Aug 1962 bur. 1962 in Williamsburg, MA
Lucy Jane Pritchard b. 30 Sep 1856 in PA
m say 1876 John C. Ramsey b. say 1850 in Ireland
George Washington Pritchard b. 22 Nov 1858 in PA
Anne Emily Pritchard b. 22 Oct 1860 in Philadelphia, PA
Kate Louise Pritchard b. 11 Aug 1862 in Philadelphia, PA
Albert Walker Pritchard b. 22 Jul 1864 in Philadelphia, PA
Lily Mary Pritchard b. 26 Oct 1866 in Philadelphia, PA d. 1950
m. say 1890 John Mathers b. say 1860 in PA d. 20 Sep 1932
William John Pritchard b. 30 Jul 1870 in Philadelphia, PA
m. say 1892 Margaret b. Nov 1870 in England
Charles Pritchard b. say 1871 in Philadelphia, PA d. say 1871
Clara Ellen Pritchard b. say 1872 in Philadelphia, PA d. say 1873
Henry Pritchard IV
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Henry Edward Paul Pritchard Sr
Mother: Hazel Amelia Smith
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Henry Pritchard V
Henry Pritchard V
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Henry Pritchard IV
Mother:
Henry E. P. Pritchard
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1895 - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Christening:
Death: 28 Sep 1918 - Montfaucon nr Verdun, France
Burial:
Parents
Father: William John Pritchard
Mother: Margaret Baker
Notes
General:
Died in WWI: Corporal PRITCHARD Henry E. P. Philadelphia KA 140Research:
Note from Henry Pritchard V re picture: "Here's a photo of 1895 HEPP at Fort Dix, NJ, April 1918. He's front row, left. Six months later my grandfather, 1896 HEPP, rec'd a letter marked "Deceased" - I'm told he was KIA in France."
An Extract from.......
HISTORY OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH DIVISION A.E.F.
DURING THE WORLD WAR: 1917-1919
MALANCOURT AND MONTFAUCON
The final position of the regiment on the night of September 27-28 was about a kilometer north of Montfaucon although some elements were even further advanced to the edge of the Bois de Beuge. The 316th Infantry remained in the immediate rear of the 313th along the roads to Cierges and Nantallois, which diverged at the northern approach to the town.
The condition of the infantry and machine gun battalions through want of proper rations and water, as darkness fell on September 27, was truly deplorable. The units of the 304th Supply and Ammunition Trains had been unable to get up any supplies owing to the road congestion. Company "G", of the Ammunition Train, with its 100 small burros, alone succeeded in getting through with food. The burro train, under Lieut. Col. Thomas W. Miller, Divison Ordnance Officer and Captain Parker R. Skinner, arrived at Malancourt via Esnes during the height of the shelling, but the animals were absolutely undisturbed by the hostile fire, carrying out their natural inclination regardless of the shells bursting around them. The food supply so carried, however was limited and not enough for general distribution. It was forwarded to the regimental supply companies, but they, in turn, had difficulty in getting it to the men. For example, Captain John A. Hughes, Regimental Supply Officer of the 313th, came up with the trains on the evening of September 27, and was immediately shelled out of the orchard near Montfaucon.' The men in the advance lines were still without water and had, in almost all instances, exhausted the rations they had carried in their packs at the opening of the drive. Fortunately for those in Montfaucon, especially the wounded, a pure well was found.
The organization of the town by the captors had developed some interesting disclosures. The ruined houses in the town proper had been provided with arched, stone wine cellars from ten to twenty feet wide, fifteen to forty feet long, with five to sixteen feet of cover. In many instances these had been used as shelters by the Germans, especially as observation posts, reinforced machine gun nests and signal stations. In some cases the cellars had been connected by galleries to form continuous shelters. Deep dugouts were to be found everywhere, at least 100 of them in the immediate vicinity of the town, especially on the slope to the north and east and in the Bois de la Tuilerie. Along the bottom of the ratiher steep scarp to the north, the Germans had constructed two groups of about thrty buildings, consisting of barracks, offices, officers' quarters and storerooms. Seventeen heavily reinforced observation posts' groups were distributed at various points in the town. Usually they were built up in the form of a concrete shaft inside of a ruined house, and had an eight inch slit at the top for observation. The shafts were usually from five to seven feet square. The biggest find, however, was "a heavily reinforced concrete observation tower and shelter built up on the inside of a large chateau on the extreme western slope of the hill, and commanding from its top the terrain from the heights of Verdun to Clermont at the edge of the Foret d'Argonne. A more favorable topographic situation could hardly be imagined, but realizing the fact that such a point would receive considerable attention from enemy artillery, the Germans built, with characteristic thoroughness, an observation post and system of shelters which could defy any ordinary bombardment."
A complete description of this post that the Crown Prince was reputed to have used during the attacks on Verdun in 1916, and which was used so effectively by the Americans subsequently against the very enemy which had built it, is as follows:
The chateau is a three-story barn-shaped building, constructed with the massive outside and inside masonry walls common to the older French architecture. The Germans have first laid a heavy course of reinforcing over the first floor, making the arched cellars excellent shelters with from 6 to 10 feet of masonry and a 30 inch stone as cover. In addition, a dugout was built under the road providing an additional 18 feet of cover. From the basement a tower is built, reaching to a total height of 35 feet. This tower is well protected, having for the most of its height three feet of concrete and two masonry walls on the side toward the enemy line. Where the protection of the outer wall ceased an additional concrete slab protected the upper I'-J feet of the tower. A four foot slab covered the top. A small chart room at the highest point by the opening sheltered the observer and his instruments.
The special feature of the place, however, was a powerful reflecting telescopic periscope mounted on a gun carriage and put in place on the first floor with the tube running through the tower and out the roof. This instrument was so constructed that observation could be carried on either through selective eye pieces at the base of the tube on the first floor or by means of reflectors and prisms from the second or third floors. A large and very elaborate observation map was found mounted in the room scaled in nails and oriented with respect to the instrument so that to lay on any point on the map it was only necessary to get its milsdeflection from the map, turn it off on the traversing scale of the telescope and bring it into focus from the eye piece. The instrument, when captured, was in serviceable condition, but before it could be reversed to bear on the enemy lines, some thoughtless souvenir hunter stole the eye pieces, rendering it useless.
Word of the finding of the periscopic telescope was sent back to Division P.C, reaching the ear of General Kuhn shortly after 18h, at which time he had moved his P. C. from Haucourt to Ouvrage du Demon, 2,600 meters southeast of Montfaucon, near the fork of the Malancourt-Montfaucon and Malancourt-Cuisy roads.''' The Division Commander had been having difficulties all day in securing proper information regarding the front. The brigades and regiments had been in constant touch by telephone, but the aeroplane, the supposed "eye of the army," had been sadly missed. The French air squadron had been of no use whatever. The news that there was a good observation post on the very summit of Montfaucon was sent back by the Division Observers. The Observers consisted of ten men under Sgt. Thomas M. Rivel and included Privates 1st CI. Arthur S. Roberts and Arthur J. McCain. At 18h, also, the Division Commander ordered the 304th Sanitary Train, less the units already at the front and Field Hospitals 314 and 315 at Clair Chene, to proceed to Malancourt. The movement started, but had to be postponed because of the darkness and road conditions which made travel impossible. Company "A", of the 304th Engineers, had been busy from noon on, repairing the Malancourt-Montfaucon road as it moved northward toward the latter place, and a large portion of the rest of the regiment was also seeking to put the road in better condition, three platoons of "C" Company constructing a short cut for light traffic around the crossroads at Malancourt, and Companies "E" and "F" doing nothing but road repair work until midnight.
With "B" Company building a water station and "D" Company striving to make the tank road adequate for heavy tanks, the entire regiment was well occupied. Despite the severity of the fighting, the fatalities among the enlisted personnel on the second day were unusually light, as the following tables show:
313th Infantry
Company "A"
Private Harry E. Barnhart
Company "B"
Corporal Henry J. C. Rechner
Privates John B. Bean
Frank Rivenburgh
Joseph A. Roche
David Rudolph
Company "D"
Private Victor S. Carlson
Company "E"
Mechanic Guy O. Brown
Privates 1st cl Robert K. McKenzie
Otto C. Phillips
Privates Jacob Gersuk
Jerry G. Picha
Walter Wells
Company "H"
Private Emilio Mattia
Company "I"
Private 1st cl Zadoc M. Katz
Company "L"
Corporal John L. Hoffman
Headquarters Company
Private 1st cl Roland E. Todd
Machine Gun Company
Private Herbert A. Zittinger
Sanitary Detachment
Private William J. Deans
314th Infantry
Company "A"
Sergeant George W. Hougham
Private Clarence P. Ferguson
Company "F"
Sergeant Reginald E. Vought
Privates Noble H. Gilbert
Stanley L. Jones
August C. Shuler
Charles E. Shade
Charles F. Weber
Company "G"
Corporal William W. Sipler
Private Paul Zinder
Company "H"
Privates Paul Goman
Joseph E. Haines
Company "I"
Private Wayne R. Horton
Company "K"
Sergeant Thomas J. Fearn
Corporal Phillip S. Sharp
Company "L"
Private Alexander Lmanian
Company "M"
Private 1st cl Louis Sofianos
Privates Everett Hogoboom
Joseph J. Miscannon
Company "B"
Sergeant Thomas J. Kennedy
Private 1st cl John E. Davies
Company "B"
Corporal Henry E. P. Pritchard
Private 1st cl Albert F. Pillieger
Private Louis Lohmuller
Company "D"
Private 1st cl Charles R. Diehl
Company "G"
Private John Greenwood
Company "K"
Privates Giovanni Angelillo
Bernard Aspell
315th Infantry
Private 1st cl Russell T. Delker
Private Albert Commaker
Company "M"
Private Harry Hirsch
Machine Gun Company
Segeants Robert P. Black
Howard Hoesle
James W. McCartner
Sanitary Detachment
Private Anthony Saccomanno
816th Infantry
Company "H" Headquarters Company
Private William H. Haag Private John R. Rickenbach
312th Machine Gun Battalion
Company "A"
Private Henry E. Michaelis
Company "B"
Privates Claude J. Brittingham
Thomas H. Davies