GEORGE WILLIAM PRATT

 

Born: 1879, Harwich, Essex.

Died: 1st April 1915; Age: 36; Died of Wounds – No. 8. Casualty Clearing Station.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein: 10th October 1914.

 

Rank: Private; Service Number: 3/9113

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.

 

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star + Clasp.

 

Grave Reference:

J.54.

Bailleul Communal Cemetery,

France.

 

CENSUS

 

1881 Fishmongers Shop, 6, Fore Street, Ipswich.

George was 3 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

John Pratt, 34, a Fishmonger, born Harwich, Essex.

Maria Pratt, 31, born Harwich.

Ada Maria Pratt, 10, born Harwich.

Eliza Emma Pratt, 9, born Harwich.

John Pratt, 5, born Harwich.

William Charles Pratt, 2, born Ipswich.

Frederick Joseph Pratt, born Ipswich.

 

1891   25, Key Street. Ipswich.

George was 14 years old he was living with his parents & brothers.

John, 46, a Fish Merchant.

Maria, 42.

William, 13.

Frederick, 10.

Albert Robert Pratt, 8, born Ipswich.

Henry Pratt, 5, born Ipswich.

Valentine Walker Pratt, 3, born Ipswich.

 

1911   Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

George was 32 years old, a Groom – Domestic. He was 1 of 30 lodgers at the Lodging House of 31 year old, William Henry Barrett.

 

George’s mother, Maria Pratt died 1899, Ipswich.

 

Soldiers’ Effects to William Charles Pratt & Albert R. Pratt, Harry Pratt, Valentine Pratt – brothers. Mrs. Ada M. Nunn & Mrs. Eliza Wright – sisters, and Ethel M. Pratt – sister-in-law.

 

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