Ralph Catherall was the son of Edward and Hannah Catherall of Tram Road. His 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 born in 1881 and he was 34 when he died in 1915. Ralph’s father Edward was a farm labourer. From the 1911 census Ralph had two sisters, Constance and Florrie.