Charles William Ratliffe was born in 1893 in Selborne, the son of Charles and Maria Ratliffe. In 1901, the family were still in Selborne where Charles was a rural postman. They had all moved to Lower Street in Farringdon by the time of the next census and Charles was then a shop assistant.

Charles enlisted in Aldershot into the 10th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment as 10068 Private Ratliffe. He landed in Gallipoli on 5th August 1915 and was killed in action just 18 days later - aged 22.

The Alton Gazette of January 1916 noted that ‘Private C Ratliffe, 10th Hants, killed in the Dardenelles’ in the Farringdon ‘Roll of Glory’. Private Charles William Ratliffe was buried in the 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery, Suvia in Turkey - Grave Sp. Mem. A. 111.

Source: “The Remembered Ones of the Great War”, 2014, The Alton and Villages Local History Forum (with permission)