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Personal data

• Name HOMAN
• Initials RW
• First name RALPH WILLIAM
• Place of birth Hadley
• Country Kent, England
• Family Son of Ralph and Amy A. Homan, of Hadley, Tunbridge Wells.
• Education Rugby School (1906 - 1910)
  Sandhurst cadet (1910 - 1911)
• Profession Military man
• Extra info Won the high jump in 1910

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Buffs (East Kent Regiment) D Coy
• Division - Brigade 16th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Gazetted to the 1st Battalion of The Buffs, October 1911; promotion February 1913; temporary Captain February 1915; left for France 7 September 1914; wounded at Radinghem, October 1915; returned to the front in May 1916.

Death

• Wounded 10 August, Hooge
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds in the head
• Date of death 11 August 1915
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - A - 13
• Related (battlefield) cemeteries for this unit & period POTIJZE CHATEAU WOOD CEMETERY ; LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY No.1 ; LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY No.2 ; ESSEX FARM CEMETERY

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