Murray Edmund PRATTEN

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PRATTEN, Murray Edmund

Service Numbers:	S6523, 416994
Enlisted:	17 October 1940, Millicent, SA
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 463 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	North Unley, South Australia, Australia, 16 March 1918
Home Town:	Unley, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Scotch College, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Banker - Union Bank
Died:	Flying Battle, At Sea, North West Europe, 22 May 1944, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Melbourne Union Bank of Australia Limited 'In Memoriam' WW2 Honour Roll, Millicent War Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

World War 2 Service

17 Oct 1940:	Enlisted S6523
17 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Millicent, SA
17 Oct 1940:	Involvement S6523
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 416994
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 416994, No. 463 Squadron (RAAF), Adelaide, South Australia
9 Nov 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 416994
22 May 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 416994, No. 463 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Harry Adolphus and Selma Eliza Pratten, of Unley, South Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pratten of the Savings Bank of SA, Unley have been advised that their only son, PO Murray Edmund Pratten. is missing as the result of air operations on May 22. He was a captain pilot of a Lancaster bomber which failed to return to its base. PO Pratten was on the staff of the Union Bank of Australia. Ltd. Millicent, when he enlisted.

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