Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He was unmarried and worked on the GW Railway in Manchester before enlisting in October, the same month as his elder brother Tom who is also commemorated here. Ratcliffe was wounded in October 1917, returned to the front the following April and then wounded again on 25th September. Despite having his left arm amputated he died of septicaemia 3 weeks later in 1 South African Hospital. He is also commemorated on IWM Memorial 29390 as, like his brother Tom, he attended Crossley and Porter School.