Private 27048 Charles Ratcliffe

The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M

Regiment/Unit: Welsh Regiment - 8th Bn.
Theatre of War: Gallipoli
Theatre of War First Served: 2(b) Balkans
Date Entered Therein: 04/07/1915
Previous Reg/Num: 11867, S Lancs Regt.

Age at death: 31
Date of death: 8th of August 1915 (Sunday)
Born: Earlestown, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Helles Memorial - Panel 140 to 144.

BMD details:
Marriage: 07/08/1904 Charles RATCLIFFE to Edith MATHER at Eccleston Christ Church CE.

Family details:
Widow: Edith Critchley

Census details:
1891 - 6 years old schoolboy Charles is living at 122 Albion Street, St Helens with parents Edmund (50), Mary (46) and three siblings: Edmund (16), William (10), George (2). 1901 - 16 years old 'Glass Blowers Apprentice' Charles is still living at 122 Albion Street, St Helens with widowed mother Mary (56) and two siblings: William (20), George (12). Emily A Green (27) is boarding at the address. 1911 - Sees 27 years old 'Furnace Stoker' Charles living at 60 Grant Street, St Helens with wife Edith (27) and three children Charles (5), Elsie (4), Edmund (2).

Notes:
All census records gives Charles' birthplace as St Helens. Age taken from census.

[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/27048CharlesRatcliffe.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/27048CharlesRatcliffe.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Helles Memorial bearing the inscription for Private Charles Ratcliffe (Photograph courtesy of Phil Wood off GWF )[/caption]