Private William Ratcliffe

Army Number : 6121

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Thomas Ratcliffe, of 52, Harrison Street, Derby; Husband of Rose Ratcliffe, of Weston-On-Trent, Derby.

Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 40, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.