| BORN | Born 5 April 1920 in Bradden, Nr Towcester |
| LIVED | 32 Ridgmont, Deanshanger with widowed mother (1939 register) |
| Death | Killed in action Thursday 1st March 1945 |
| Buried | REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot 62. Row E. Grave 5 |
| Rank & Regiment | Private 5955820, 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment |
| Father | Thomas Ratcliffe b 1885 Stony Stratford |
| Mother | Lilian Payne 1882 Daventry |
| Notes | Married Cynthia Catherine Willis, b 1922 Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire |
