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Battersby, Henry Francis Prevost, 1862-1949
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1862-1949
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BATTERSBY, HENRY FRANCIS PREVOST, eldest son of Maj. -Gen. John Prevost Battersby, Commandant Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, and Louisa, dau. of Sir William Dillon, Bart.; b. 10 Feb 1862; adm. (G) 21 Jan 1875; left May 1878; RMA Woolwich and RMC Sandhurst; Lieut., 1st bn. Irish Rifles 10 May 1882; retd. 1883; played hockey for South v. North 1890-5; war correspondent for Morning Post in South Africa 1899-1900 (wounded), Somaliland 1902, France and Flanders 1915-6 (wounded); war correspondent for Reuters on American and British fronts 1918 (gassed); special correspondent with Prince of Wales in India 1905-6; author, In the web of a war, 1900, and a number of other works, poems, plays and translations, under pen name Francis Prevost; m. 21 Apr 1909 Frances Muriel (Pearl), elder dau. of Henry C. Saunders, Weybridge, Surrey; d. 20 Jun 1949.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.