Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior, KCIE,

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(9 December 1896 – 11 October 1972) was a British Indian Army and

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officer. The only son of Richard Delabere Prior, the young Prior was educated at

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and then trained at the

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, from where he was commissioned into the Indian Army on 14 July 1915. In August 1923, he joined the political service department, in which he rose to be under-secretary. He was appointed a Commander of the

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in 1936 and in 1943 was made a knight commander of the same Order. By the time of the British withdrawal from India in August 1947, Prior held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.“PRIOR, SIR CHARLES GEOFFREY, K.C.I.E.” in ''The India Office and Burma Office List'' (1947), p. 306

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prior, Geoffrey Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1896 births 1972 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Indian Political Service officers People educated at Shrewsbury School British Indian Army officers British expatriates in South Africa Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society