Description

Offered is a WW1 British Army medal group, as awarded to Corporal Harry Ratcliffe who served with both the Suffolk Regiment and Suffol Yeomanry during the war.

1914 – 15 Star, impressed named 18225 P^TE H.H. RATCLIFFE. SUFF. R.; British War and Victory Medals, impressed named 18225 CPL. H.H. RATCLIFFE. SUFF. R. Comes with copies M.I.C. medal rolls and absent voters list.

Corporal Harry Howard Ratcliffe (service number 18225), landed in France 27/7/1915 as a re enforcement to the 2^nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment, at some stage he was transferred to the 15^th Battalion (Suffolk Yeomanry) with the new service number 320553 when the Territorial Army units were re numbered in 1917. Discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 8/4/1919.

He is recorded on the Absent Voters List 1918 as living at 25, Greville Road, Pembrokeshire, Wales.