Leslie James PRATT MID

PRATT, Leslie James

Service Number: SX9465
Enlisted: 22 July 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Waikerie, South Australia, 1 May 1919
Home Town: Black Forest, Unley, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Libya, 13 May 1941, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

22 Jul 1940: Involvement Lieutenant, SX9465, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
22 Jul 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
22 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, SX9465, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
30 Dec 1941: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Siege of Tobruk

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Biography contributed by David Jordan

Occupation at enlistment was Clerk.

 

Award Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) on 31 Mar 1942 (London Gazette)