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21 July 2021

Hammer Price:
£240

Three: Gunner A. H. Pratley, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 6 July 1916

1914 Star (36415 Gnr: A. H. Pratley. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (36415 Gnr. A. H. Pratley. R.A.) in named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Albert Henry Pratley) in card envelope of issue; together with the recipient’s Oxfordshire Education Committee Good Attendance Medal, the reverse engraved ‘H. Pratley 1906-7’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140

Albert Henry Pratley was born in Finstock, Oxfordshire and served during the Great War with the 115th (Heavy) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in the French theatre of war from 2 October 1914. He died of wounds on the Western Front, 6 July 1916, and is buried in Carnoy Military Cemetery, Somme, France.