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KOSB Museum; PRATT - Captain James Bonham Todd - 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died of enteric fever, 23rd June 1900. Aged 38. Son of Colonel Henry Hamilton Pratt (late 94th Foot). Educated at Cheltenham College. I also note that he also served in the Chin-Lushai expedition with the 1st Battalion in 1889-90
Christies; Lot 1757262. Pair: Captain J.B.T. Pratt, King's Own Scottish Borderers, India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Lieutt., 1st Bn. K.O. Sco. Bord.); Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (Capt., K.O. Sco. Bord.), this last with the date '1900' posthumously engraved after the official naming details, extremely fine or better, contained in a fitted leather case, the lid gilt inscribed, 'Capt. J.B.T. Pratt, 1st King's Own Scottish Borderers'
Harts Military List 1900, Scottish library. Page 267, James Bonham Tod Pratt. 19 years service, 22Sept1881 – 2nd lieutenant; 01July1882 – Lieutenant; 10 May1900 – captain; Died 23rd June 1900.
Britain's Small Wars; CHIN LUSHAI EXPEDITION, BURMA, 1890; Lt Francis Alexander Kingslake Foster (WMR 68355) went out walking with two comrades, a Lieutenant Pratt of his own regiment, the Scottish Borderers, and Surgeon-Major Burke of the Medical Service. About a mile and a half out of the camp the three were fired upon. Pratt drew his revolver and chased the assailants, who fled. When Pratt returned he found Burke bent over the body of Foster, who had been shot through the back of the head, dying instantly.
Leamington Spa Courier 3rd March 1900; Among the officers wounded at Paardeberg, in Lord Roberts's bombardment of General Cronje, appears the name of Captain James Pratt, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, son of Colonel Pratt, a well-known Leamington resident. His family have received a telegram stating that Captain Pratt was injured in the thigh, but fortunately it is only a flesh wound, and not of a very serious nature.
Hansards - 29 April 1890 vol 343 cc1636-71636; MR. BRADLAUGH
Does not the information which the right hon. Gentleman has been good enough to furnish me with, show that in the months of December, January, and February a very large number of British officers and British troops were sick? Take, for example, the 21st of December, when 50 men of the Scottish Borderers were sick and 13 out of 49 officers. Under those circumstances, does not the right hon. Gentleman think that my question fairly represented the state of health of the troops at the time I put the question?