Eight: Surgeon Commander D. W. Pratt, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Surg. Cdr., R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, very fine (8) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Denis William Pratt was born in Belfast on 22 March 1911. He qualified in Medicine at Queen’s University, Belfast in 1934, gaining the degrees M.B., B.C.H. He was appointed a Surgeon Lieutenant on 2 October 1934 and was promoted to Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in October 1940; Acting Surgeon Commander in October 1946 and Surgeon Commander in December 1949. During the Second World War he was posted to H.M.S. Erebus in October 1942 and to H.M.S. Forte in February 1944. During the Korean War he served on the hospital ship Maine. Surgeon Commander Pratt retired c.1965 and died at Grasmere, Cumbria on 24 January 1979.

With copied death certificate and will and other research.