Author:Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

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Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
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Major. DSO, MC, FRGS, FZS; explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War; concerned not only with improving the quality of marksmanship, the measures he introduced to counter the threat of German snipers were credited by a contemporary with saving the lives of over 3,500 Allied soldiers

Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

Works

  • Where Black Rules White: A Journey across and about Hayti (1900)
  • Through the Heart of Patagonia (1902) (transcription project)
  • Through Trackless Labrador (1911)
  • November Joe: Detective of the Woods (1913)
  • Sniping in France: with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers (1920) (No index)

With his mother, Katherine Prichard

  • "The No-Good Britisher" in The Strand Magazine, 17 (101) (1899).

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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