Name
Eric Pratt
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/09/1917
22 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11528
Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd Battalion
"A" Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
XI. C. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Inscription
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Radwell, Not on the Newham memorial
Pre War
Eric was born in Newnham, Hertfordshire in 1895, the son of Arthur and Mary Jane Pratt (nee Cox).
1901 Census records Eric aged 7, living with his parents and sister Mable 16, in Newnham Herts.
His Father Arthur Pratt died in July 1904. His mother Mary remarried in 1908 to an Alfred Lilley.
By 1911 Eric now aged 18, was working as a Farm Labourer, living with his mother, Step-father Alfred Lilley, 4 step-brothers and 2 Step-sisters in Radwell, Herts.
Recorded as born in Newnham and living in Radwell (Herts) when he enlisted in Lincoln.
Wartime Service
Eric enlisted in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in September 1914, posted to the Lincolnshire Regiment with the service number 11528.
Landing in France in July 1915. He received a gunshot wound to the right thigh in September 1916, sent back to the UK for medical treatment. Returning to France on 22nd May 1917. He re-joined his Battalion on the 23rd May 1917.
He was reported missing in the field on 16th August 1917.
Eric was wounded in action and taken a prisoner of war. He died of an abdominal wound in a German Field Hospital on the 4th September 1917. He was initially buried by the Germans in Izeghem, Communal Cemetery German Extension, in Belgium. German Grave Ref No. 668. Map Reference 21. S21. B. 6. 2.
After the war he was re-buried in Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £20-11s-9d left to his mother Mary J. Lilley.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
