An “active service” stables during the Great War. It was in conditions like this that Philip Pratt could have found himself working in as a member
of the Army Veterinary Corps.
Philip, the third son of Mary and Charles, was born in Melton on 21st March 1890. In 1911, the twenty-oneyear- old Philip was working on his father’s farm.
Philip joined the Army Veterinary Service as a “Special Enlistment”, most likely due to his good knowledge of horses, for the duration of the war. For his war service, Philip received the British War and Victory Medals.
In 1939, Philip was a farmer in Dallinghoo, Suffolk, living with his wife Ethel, who he had married in 1921, at Sunnyside on Pound Corner. Philip died in 1960 in Dallinghoo.