Pair: Private P. W. Pratley, Canadian Forestry Corps

British War and Victory Medals (1048171 Pte. P. W. Pratley, C.F.C.), together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘1048171 Pte. P. W. Pratley’, with straight-bar suspension, very fine and better (3) £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Percy Walter Pratley was born in London, England, on 6 April 1882. A Lumberman by occupation, he enlisted into the 242nd Battalion at Edmonton in August 1916. Embarked for France in January 1917, he served ih the 19th Company, Canadian Forestry Corps. Discharged as medically unfit, suffering from heart problems, at Calgary in March 1919, he died of heart disease at Victoria, B.C., in January 1959; sold with copied service papers.