Hugh Anthony Prince

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Major-General Hugh Anthony Prince, CBE, Chief, Military Planning Office, SEATO, Bangkok, late the 6th Gurkha Rifles and The King's Regiment (Liverpool), died at Arles, France, 6 November 2005. He was aged 94.

He was born 11 August, 1911, the son of H.T. Prince, FRCS, LRCP, and was educated at Eastbourne College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Army in 1931; served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles until 1947; The King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1947. He was appointed CBE in 1960.

He married in firstly, 1938, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr Walter Bapty, of Victoria BC. His first wife died in 1959. There were 2 sons of the union. He married secondly, in 1959, Claude-Andree, dau of Andre Romanet, by whom he had a son.

The funeral took place at Chester Cathedral, 18 November, 2005.