PRATT, Victor Alfred
| Service Number: | 4470 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria and assigned to 23rd Battalion, 11th Reinforcement intake. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 9 June 1891 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Victorian State School System, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk, State Savings Bank, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Died: | Murdered whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Near Matupi Crater, New Guinea, 29 August 1942, aged 51 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Eye witness accounts note buried by Japanese in Japanese Cemetery near Matupi Crater. |
| Memorials: | South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4470, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Victoria and assigned to 23rd Battalion, 11th Reinforcement intake. | |
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| 23 Apr 1916: | Involvement 4470, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 23 Apr 1916: | Embarked 4470, 23rd Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Melbourne | |
| 21 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4470, Army Pay Corps (AIF), Demobbed to Melbourne, Victoria after cessation of war. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Alfred James Pratt and Mary Florence Fitzgerald married 17th October 1889 in Bairnsdale, Victoria.
1st Wife:- Sylvia Rose Nicholls married 23rd September 1915 in Melbourne, Victoria. Divorced January 1937.
2nd Wife: - Linda Napier Polson married 1939 in Caulifield, Melbourne.
Fate: - Victor Pratt was the owner of Tobera Plantation, New Britain, New Guinea, when the Japanese invaded in 1942, he sent his family to Melbourne to reside with relatives. Victor stayed on at the plantation and prior to the Japanese arriving he packed up and "went bush". However in July 1942 along with several other Europeans in his party he was captured by the Japanese and interred in Ramale Prison Camp. Towards the end of July 1942, Victor and 5 or 6 other European prisoners were taken to Matupi Crater and murdered (beheaded by sword) than buried in a Japanese Cemetery nearby. Location of remains unknown. (Lost to war).
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