Lives of the First World War

24th May 1915

under Lieut. A. C. Westwood, had also been having their own share of casualties, and the first Cupar member of our battalion lost his life here. This was Pte. John Pratt previously an ironmonger with Capt. T. J. Robertson's firm. He had been out making a sap for the machine gun in front of the line, when a shrapnel shell came over. A fragment hit him on the head, and he died almost immediately.

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