Ralph was Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers of the 175th Tunnelling Company. He won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery in 1915 and was killed on Flanders Fields in 1916. He is now buried at Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, commemorated on Panel 9. The 175th Tunnelling Company was formed at Terdeghem in April 1915, and moved soon after into the Railway Wood-Hooge-Armagh Wood area of the Ypres Salient. Extended to the Hill 60 in July 1915. Relieved in May 1916 by the 1st Australian Tunneling Company.

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