Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Edward and Margaret Pritchard. The 1911 census records for 12, Leicester Lane, Great Bowden, Leics. Edward Pritchard, head of the family and married for 33 years, a Labourer, born 1853 in St. John's, Newfoundland and his wife Margaret, born 1859 in Clipstone, Northants., also John Edward, son, single and a Railway Labourer, born 1881 in North Kilworth, Leics., Harry, son, single and a Railway Labourer, born 1887, George, son, single and a Brewers Labourer, born 1892, Albert, son, born 1897, Maggie, daughter, born 1902, Louisa, daughter, born 1902, Fred, son, born 1904 and May, daughter, born 1905, the latter seven children were all born in Great Bowden, Leics.The 1911 census records for Leicestershire Regiment 413, The Barracks, Saffron Lane, Glen Parva, Leicester. James Pritchard. single, born 1893 in Great Bowden, Leics. His elder brother Harry also fell in action.