Photo: Janet Brown
In Amble West Cemetery is a family grave for Pratt which has a separate base, possibly for a vase, which bears the inscription:
also of his eldest son
James S. Pratt, A.B.
of the Howe Batt. R.N.D.
who died of wounds received
in action, Oct. 28. 1917
aged 30 years
and is buried at Nine Elms
British Cemetery
Near Ypres, Flanders.
He hath made the great sacrifice
James Sanderson Pratt was born on the 20th March 1887, Sunderland, the eldest son of the late Councillor Andrew Dryden Pratt of 9 Bede Street, Amble, Northumberland. J. P. Elementary Schoolmaster, and his wife, Jane, daughter of Charles Rogers.
James was educated at Radcliffe Church of England School there, was apprenticed to the Building Trade, joined the Collingwood Battalion. Royal Naval Division in October 1914, was transferred to the Howe Battalion, served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Dardanelles from May, 1915, took part in the fighting there on the 4th June. Towards the end of the year he was sent to Malta Hospital, suffering from septic poisoning and jaundice; subsequently proceeded to France in May, 1916, was wounded on the Somme in November of the same year, and invalided home, rejoined his unit 9th April, 1917, at Blandford; returned to France on Easter Monday, 1917, and died at No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station, near Poperinghe, 28 October following. Buried in Nine Elms British Military Cemetery, near Ypres. He was unmarried.
James Sanderson Pratt is remembered at Amble on A13.01, A13.07 and A13.14
