Ralph Catherall was the son of Edward Catherall of Tram Road, born in 1881. Ralph’s mother Margaret nee Humphreys died in 1897. In 1891 Edward and Margaret lived at Prenybrigog with children Ralph, Lizzie, John E. and William. Edward married Hannah Bennett in about 1900. In 1911, Edward listed as a farm labourer and Hannah were at Tram Road with children William, Constance and Florrie.

Ralph’s death was reported in the County Herald in October 1915.

News has also been received: that Private Ralph Catherall, of the South Lancashire Regiment, whose parents reside in Tram Road, Buckley was killed in action on the 20th September. He was 34 years of age and unmarried; and before the war was employed as a labourer. A brother of the deceased named William is serving with the King’s Own Rifles.

Ralph’s death was reported in the County Herald in October 1915.

News has also been received: that Private Ralph Catherall, of the South Lancashire Regiment, whose parents reside in Tram Road, Buckley was killed in action on the 20th September. He was 34 years of age and unmarried; and before the war was employed as a labourer. A brother of the deceased named William is serving with the King’s Own Rifles.

Ralph’s brother William mentioned in the County Herald was Rifleman 594 of the 16^th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, who survived the war.

At the outbreak of the war the 2^nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, was station in the garrison town of Tidworth Wiltshire as a component of the regular army 3^rd Division. Ralph crossed to France to join his unit already in theatre on 5 December 1914, which was concentrated around Avesnes, France. His battalion was present during the 1914 engagements of the Retreat from Mons, Battle of the Aisne and Battle of Ypres.

Ralph was 34 when he died on 25 September 1915 in Belgium, during the second attempt to capture the German held Bellewaarde Ridge that day by the 3^rd Division, which included the 2^nd Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment.

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.