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 was 34 when he died in 1915.
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.