PRATT, Victor Godfrey
| Service Number: | QX13849 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia, 1 January 1919 |
| Home Town: | Kilcoy, Somerset, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Kilcoy State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Syria, 19 June 1941, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria O. 6. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kilcoy Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lance Corporal, QX13849 | |
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| 2 Jul 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 2 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX13849, 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion | |
| 7 Apr 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX13849, 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jun 1941: | Discharged | |
| 30 Dec 1941: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette: 30 December 1941 on page 7361 at position 32 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Victor Godfrey Pratt (Service No:QX13849) first served in the Militia, enlisting on 22 January 1939 as a Trooper (Service No:74843) with 2/14th Light Horse Regiment, before enlisting in the AIF on 2 July 1940. Promoted to Lance Corporal on 1 March 1941, he was attached to 2/25 Infantry Battalion on 7 April 1941 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for the Middle East. Lance Corporal Pratt was KiA in Syria on 19 June 1941, and is buried at Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery. Lance Corporal Pratt was awarded a Mention in Despatches 'for service and devotion to duty in the field' (London Gazette: 30 December 1941).
Vic was born in Kilcoy, QLD in 1919, second of five children of Edward Alfred Pratt (b1893 in Brisbane, QLD) and Alice Ollenburgh (b1895 at Sheep Station Creek via Kilcoy, QLD). Edward and Alice married in 1916 in Kilcoy, where they settled and raised their family and Edward was a Labourer and Farmer - the couple lived in Caloundra in the 1950s, where Edward was a Farmer, before returning to Kilcoy in the early 1960s.
Vic worked in Kilcoy as a Farm Hand before enlisitng in the Army.
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