Included
with the medals is the recipient's bible, a photograph album featuring many
images from the 1913 annual Territorials camp. A plated silver cup that was
presented for ' General Efficiency 1913'. Along with two photographs of Prall
and twelve letters from his mother. Finally, his officer's record of service
and commission document.
George
Arthur Kenneth Prall was born in Willesden Green, Middlesex, in 1895. His
family manufactured coats and hats, and at the time of the 1911 census, the
family were living and working in Hammersmith.
George
was a pre-war territorial and attended the 1913 annual summer camp. A member of
the 10th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, he landed in France on the 9th of
March 1915. George was wounded and then commissioned into the Labour Corps on
the 17th of July 1917 as a Lieutenant. As he didn't return to France with this
new rank, and his service from then on was home service, his medals are named
to the highest rank he held while on active service in France.
During
the Second World War, he was recommissioned as a Lieutenant on the 9th of July
1940, serving with the Auxiliary Pioneer Corps.
George
passed away in Ipswich in 1985.
