Ratcliffe,+Wilson

Private, Middlesex Regiment. Service number: 267410. Private, East Surrey Regiment. Service number: 28701.
 * Wilson Ratcliffe**

He survived the war and his name is recorded on the plaque in Marsh Chapel.

Born 1895 and son of Fred and Eleanor ( Ellen ) Ratcliffe.( Eleanor's maiden name was Hutchinson and she was born in Kirby Stephen ,Westmoreland in 1858) they were married in 1882. Fred was a cabinet maker by trade who also worked as a joiner.The family lived in both Oxenhope and Haworth.

Wilson was one of two sons of this couple to serve in the war.The other son was James Gordon Ratcliffe, also listed on the Marsh plaque.. There may have been a third - John William who was born in 1882. He is also listed on the Marsh plaque, and, according to local historian Martha Heaton, Fred Ratcliffe, joiner and undertaker lived in the first decade of the century at North Ives and his son John William worked with him. A " Jno Wm " is in the 1901 census( as a joiner and cabinet maker), born Oxenhope and living Haworth as are James G. and Wilson.John is not living with the family in 1911 but probably married Mary Ellen Thompson in Keighley in 1905.

Details for Wilson are- Victory Medal: Roll: E/1/103 B14. Page 2665. British War Medal: Roll: E/1/103 B14. Page 2665. Silver War Badge List: E/1748/1
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