Henry Cecil Prescott

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Cecil Prescott, CMG, CIE (1882-1960) was Inspector-General of Police in Iraq (1920-1935)

Prescott was educated at Bedford Modern School. He was commissioned in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and served as a lieutenant in the Second Boer War (1901-02), for which he received the Queen’s Medal with five clasps. On his return to the United Kingdom, he received a commission in a regular regiment when he was appointed second lieutenant in The South Wales Borderers on 30 April 1902. During World War I he was mentioned in despatches and made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1919. In 1926 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), and towards the end of his service in Iraq he received the Order of Al Rafidain 2nd Class.

A collection of his medals were sold at auction on 2 March 2005.

Prescott died in Jersey on 3 August 1960 and was survived by one son.