Pratt, GL
(1890 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
28th May 1890
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1903 - 1906
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Camden House, Bank Buildings, 426-450 Streatham High Road
REGIMENT
3rd Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
16th May 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
24
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Festubert
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy. IV J 25
2nd Lieutenant George Leslie Pratt
Born on May 28th 1890, George was the eldest of four children of George and Florence Pratt; his father ran George Pratt & Co., a gentleman’s outfitters and early department store on Streatham High Road which was, at the time, the largest shop in Streatham. The younger George spent three years at the College, between 1903 and 1906, during which time he was a boarder in The Orchard and, in his final year, a member of the 2nd XV. After leaving he was employed by his father as an outfitter, and was also a regular player for the OAs for whom he was described as a ‘dashing forward’.
In September 1914, the month after Britain declared war, he volunteered for military service, at first as a member of the University and Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. That December George was granted a commission in the 3rd Battalion of The Queen’s and spent the next four months stationed at Chatham before, in March 1915, being attached to the 2nd Battalion with whom he went over to the front for the first time. After just two months in France however he was dead, having been killed in action near Festubert on May 16th.
