Notes
He would have enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1916 but, as the college archive states, 'Ralph Mead won an open classical exhibition to Worcester College and was looking forward to a medical career. He was due to matriculate in Michaelmas Term 1916 but instead joined the Oxford University Officer Training Corps until he was old enough to enter a cadet battalion. He received a commission in The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) in August 1917 and embarked for Belgium on 1 September that year. Second Lieutenant Ralph Mead was killed in action near Poperinge, Belgium, on 29 September 1917.'