Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard (1876 - 1922)

Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard, was an 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.