Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant W. G. J. Pratt, 23rd (1st Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, late 5th Dragoon Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 28 September 1917

1914-15 Star (D-9461 Pte. W. G. J. Pratt. 5th. D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. G. J. Pratt.); Memorial Plaque (William George James Pratt) about extremely fine (4) £240-£280

William George James Pratt was born in Hackney, London on 26 January 1897 and attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards at Walthamstow on 13 August 1914. He served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 October 1915, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 23rd (1st Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, on 31 July 1917. He was killed in action on 28 September 1917, and is buried in Cambrin Military Cemetery, France.

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