Pozieres Memorial & Cemetery, France, Somme
Remembered on:
Island (Bailiwick) Memorial,
Guernsey
St Martin's Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Memorial in Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey
Extract from 'Distinguised Service
Order 1916-1923':
PRIAULX, G. K. (D.S.O. L.G. 18.6.17);
b. 15.9.77; 2nd s. of O. de L. Priaulx ; educ. at Harrow
and Sandhurst; commissioned 60th Rifles 23.2.98; Lt.
51.10.99; Capt. 22.1.02. He fought through the S. African
War, 1899-1002 (Despatches twice ; Queen's Medal, 6
clasps ; King's Medal, 2 clasps). He went to France
in Aug. 1914, and was dangerously wounded in Sept. of
that year, and again in Sept. 1915, at Loos, when he
was in command of his battalion. After his recovery
he was appointed to the command of another battalion,
and in March, 1917, won the D.S.O. Lt.-Col. Priaulx
was killed in action on 25.3.18.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
