Private 4916 Ratcliffe Handley
Regiment/Unit: King's (Liverpool Regiment) - 1st/10th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 28
Date of death: 9th of August 1916
Born: Neston, Cheshire
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Thiepval Memorial - Pier and Face 1 D 8 B and 8 C.
BMD details:
Baptised 24 Feb 1888 son of William & Mary Handley a carpenter at Neston Parish Church, Cheshire Marriage of Radcliffe Handley and Catherine Price registered Toxteth Park, Liverpool Q4 1911
Family details:
Son of William and Mary Handley, of 8, Gladstone Rd., Neston, Cheshire; husband of Catherine Handley, of 3, Gorsey Lane, Clock Face, St. Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1891 - Ratcliffe 3 is living with his parents William 42, Mary 43 and siblings Thomas 12, Kate 11, Robert 9, Anna 5 and Maria 4 at Gladstone Road, Great Neston, Cheshire 1901 - Ratcliffe 13 is working as an Errand Boy. He is living with his parents William 52, Mary 53 and siblings Thomas 22, Kate 21, Robert 18 and Maria 14 at 8 Gladstone Road, Neston, Cheshire 1911 - Ratcliffe 23 is a Coal Miner Hewer. He is living with his parents William 62, Mary 63 and brother Thomas 32 at 8 Gladstone Road, Neston, Cheshire
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=36]Remembered on the Clock Face Colliery War Memorial[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=36]Remembered on the Clock Face Colliery War Memorial[/url]
[pic]imgs/sppics/R_Handley_KLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private Ratcliffe Handley on the Thiepval Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
