Canadian - WWI - 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) - Five Button Tunic - Named - Wounded Vimy Ridge

A standard 5 button CEF tunic with 85th Battalion distinguishing sleeve patches, 85th Battalion buttons and two wound stripes. Tunic is named on the liner (faintly) to Gordon James Pratt. 

223246 Private Gordon James Pratt, an original member of the 85th Battalion, was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1897. He joined the battalion at Halifax, NS in November 1915. He proceeded to France with the battalion in March 1917. Pratt suffered his first wound (shrapnel wound to his left arm) on 9 or 11 April 1917, during the Battle of Vimy Ridge (sources differ). He was invalided to convalesce but returned to the 85th in June 1918. He was wounded a second time on 29 September 1918 during the Battle of Cambrai. His service file confirms his entitlement to wear 2 wound stripes.

Tunic is missing shoulder buttons and two pocket buttons. We will happily assist the buyer in finding replacements.

 A very nice, named CEF tunic to a twice-wounded Nova Scotian soldier.