INDIAN VOLUNTEER FORCES DECORATION-TO CAPTAIN W.P.R.PRATT-21ST BURMA RAILWAY BN I.D.F
Indian Volunteer Forces Decoration.(George V)
Named to: CAPTN W.P.R.PRATT 21ST BURMA RLY.BN.IDF
Decoration extremely fine, with intact gilding and top suspension bar.
Awarded 31st May 1919.
Walter Philip Raven Pratt was born 18th May 1879,at Bedfield, Framlingham, Suffolk. He attested for the Norfolk Regiment on January 19th 1900 and served with the 2nd Volunteer Btn in South Africa, receiving the Queens South Africa Medal, and a Borough Of Great Yarmouth Boer War Tribute Medal, his name is also on a commemorative tablet in Great Yarmouth Town Hall. His Fathers address was given as Bedfield Rectory, Framlingham, Suffolk. He was discharged on 18/03/1901.He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 4th Btn.,Norfolk Regiment, on 18th May 1901.
Pratt joined the India State Railways as District Traffic Supt., Burma Railways in 1902.
He died at Bedfied Rectory in 1953.
Comes with copy of service from Employees of The East India Company
Code: 53647